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This is the definitive book on trickery and dirty play in baseball for thesport's formative 25 years through 1900 (the first quarter-century of the National League). The featured teams are the 1890s Orioles, and Chicago from the late 1870s through 1900. The featured players are Hall of Famers John McGraw (of Baltimore), Cap Anson (of Chicago) and Mike Kelly (of Chicago and Boston). Cap Anson 3 has a variety of tie-ins to situations on the diamond today, depending what type of competitive edge one is curious about--before the use of steroids.Rosenberg, Howard W. is the author of 'Cap Anson 3 Muggsy John Mcgraw And the Tricksters Baseball's Fun Age of Rule Bending', published 2005 under ISBN 9780972557429 and ISBN 0972557423.
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