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Twin Cinema posted:I read this a long time ago, but I remember it being a fantastic book, especially since I didn't know much about how baseball was played in the early 20th century. I thought Where They Ain't, Burt Solomon's book about the original Baltimore Orioles was pretty good. I seem to remember Don Dewey's Hal Chase bio to be pretty decent. I'm currently reading the new Ty Cobb bio and it's annoying for how desperate the author is. It's not just enough to clear the air on certain instances, he goes out of his way on every page to try to paint Cobb as something other than an ill-tempered spoiled brat. Cobb probably wasn't a total devil incarnate, but at the very least, he was a tremendous rear end in a top hat. The Cobb book does have some interesting anecdotes about early 1900s baseball players, though, such as Turkey Mike Donlin and Win Mercer. There's a bunch of Rube Waddell stories in there, too, but I think half have been proven to be bullshit. 1890s and early 1900s baseball has the best stories.
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