Town ball : the glory days of Minnesota amateur baseball

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Identifier: 6520-RefShelf-General

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Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. The town team ball era -- The boys are back, 1945-46 -- Lights on the prairie, 1947 -- Amateurs get their own class, 1948 -- Swinging for the fences, 1949 -- A season to remember, 1950 -- Cracks in the foundation, 1951-52 -- Two strikes on class AA, 1953 -- Return of the Twin Cities, 1955-56 -- Class A loses clout, 1957 -- Final innings, 1959-60 -- The end of an era -- pt. 2. The towns -- Class AA : Minnesota's big leagues -- Class A : tough competition -- Class B : small towns with big dreams -- pt. 3. The players -- Top of the order : four icons of town team ball -- Minnesota's major-league attractions -- All-around athletes : stars from other sports -- Baseball's nomads : some visited, others stayed -- Family acts : brothers take center stage -- College ringers : summer jobs between semesters -- Minnesota's own : local heroes and metro mercenaries -- Appendix : state tournament highlights and brackets, 1945-60 -- A note on sources -- Index.

Dates

Creator

Peterson, Armand (Author, Person)
Tomashek, Tom (Author, Person)

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Extent

1 Volumes : Paperback; photos, illustrations

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

"Featuring individual stories of success and defeat, hundreds of photographs and scores and statistics, Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek chronicle the unfolding of a period of Minnesota baseball history - a span of sixteen years beginning in 1945 and the euphoric postwar days to 1960, the year before the Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins. During this time Minnesota experienced a magical era of amateur ball, setting records in town participation and attendance that have not been matched since. Along with the anecdotes, Town Ball offers an in-depth study of the era and examines the social and economic factors that contributed to the postwar boom and subsequent decline."--Jacket.