Hardscrabble Diamonds
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A01=Colin Howell
Author_Colin Howell
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- ISBN 9781476690711
- Weight: 268g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2023
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system.
Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.
Colin Howell is a professor emeritus from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax where he taught Canadian and sport history and the former editor of the Canadian Historical Review.
