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Stealing Games : How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants by Klein, Maury is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball was introduced in 1910 and structurally changed n
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- Author
- Klein, Maury
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing;Bloomsbury Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781632860248
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (43 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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