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The Deadball Era (1901û1920) is a baseball fanÆs dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of ex

A history of the early years of what is known today as the deadball era of major league baseball, covering the years 1901 to 1905. These are the days of Honus W

Bucky Veil was a professional baseballer who played the game in the early years of the twentieth century, a time when baseball was beginning to evolve into Amer

This work seeks to address an often ignored factor in the study of early 20th century baseball, namely, what was the ballpark like? The author uses original res

Honus Wagner, the star player for the Pittsburgh Pirates during the Deadball Era, said hitting a baseball in those days was like hitting “a chunk of mud.” T