Read The Selling of the Babe Online
Authors: Glenn Stout
Thorn, John, and Pete Palmer, eds.
Total Baseball.
New York: Harper/Perennial; third ed., 1993.
Voigt, David Q
. American Baseball, Volumes I, II, and III.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Wagenheim, Kal.
Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend
. New York: Henry Holt, 1974.
Waterman, Ty, and Mel Springer.
The Year the Red Sox Won the World Series.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.
Wood, Allan.
1918: Babe Ruth and the World Champion Red Sox
. New York: Writers Club, 2000.
Zingg, Paul.
Harry Hooper: An American Baseball Life
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Notable Articles
Lane, F. C. “Fire Brand of the American League.”
Baseball Magazine
, March 1918.
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. “Hero of the Series.”
Baseball Magazine,
November 1918.
Steinberg, Steve. “The Curse of the ⦠Hurlers?”
Baseball Research Journal
, Vol. 35.
Stout, Glenn. “1918.”
Boston Magazine
, October 1987.
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. “A âCurse' Born of Hate.”
ESPN.com
, October 3, 2004. Originally appeared in
Boston Baseball
, September 2004. Reprinted in
Elysian Fields Quarterly
, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2005,
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?page=Curse041005
.
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. The Last Champions.”
New England Sports
, Summer 1993.
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. “When the Yankees Nearly Moved to Boston.”
ESPN.com
, July 18, 2002,
http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2002/0718/1407265.html
.
Special Collections
George Edward “Duffy” Lewis Collection. A scrapbook of items on Red Sox left fielder Lewis. Microtext Department, the Boston Tradition in Sports Collection, Boston Public Library.
Harry H. Frazee Collection, Performing Arts Collection held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Michael T. “Nuf Ced” McGreevey Collection. Donated by this owner of a Columbus Avenue saloon, this collection consists of more than 170 photographs of professional baseball in Boston and personal scrapbooks from the 1890s to 1912. Originally displayed at McGreevey's tavern, Third Base, the photographs form the largest collection of its kind. The scrapbooks have been microfilmed and are on call number: GV865.M29A3, the Boston Tradition in Sports Collection, Boston Public Library.
Online Resources
Baseballfever.com
. Researcher Bill Burgess maintains a remarkable archive of biographical information on American baseball and sportswriters on this Web site.
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1915 through 1920
HR # | DATE | TEAM | PITCHER (L/R) | OPPONENT | BALLPARK |
1 | 05/06/1915 | BOS | Jack Warhop (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
2 | 06/02/1915 | BOS | Jack Warhop (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
3 | 06/25/1915 | BOS | Ray Caldwell (R) | vs . New York Yankees | Fenway Park |
4 | 07/21/1915 | BOS | Bill H. James (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
5 | 06/09/1916 | BOS | Jean Dubuc (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
6 | 06/12/1916 | BOS | Jim Park (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
7 | 06/13/1916 | BOS | Dave Davenport (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
8 | 08/10/1917 | BOS | Bill H. James (R) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Fenway Park |
9 | 09/15/1917 | BOS | Ed Monroe (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
10 | 05/04/1918 | BOS | Allan Russell (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
11 | 05/06/1918 | BOS | George Mogridge (L) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
12 | 05/07/1918 | BOS | Walter Johnson (R) | at Washington Senators | National Park |
13 | 06/02/1918 | BOS | Eric Erickson (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
14 | 06/03/1918 | BOS | Hooks Dauss (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
15 | 06/04/1918 | BOS | Bill H. James (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
16 | 06/05/1918 | BOS | Johnny Enzmann (R) | at Cleveland Indians | League Park |
17 | 06/15/1918 | BOS | Tom Rogers (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
18 | 06/25/1918 | BOS | Allan Russell (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
19 | 06/28/1918 | BOS | Harry Harper (L) | at Washington Senators | National Park |
20 | 06/30/1918 | BOS | Walter Johnson (R) | at Washington Senators | National Park |
21 | 04/23/1919 | BOS | George Mogridge (L) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
22 | 05/20/1919 | BOS | Dave Davenport (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
23 | 05/30/1919 | BOS | Scott Perry (R) | at Philadelphia Athletics | Shibe Park |
24 | 06/07/1919 | BOS | Hooks Dauss (R) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Fenway Park |
25 | 06/17/1919 | BOS | Guy Morton Sr. (R) | vs . Cleveland Indians | Fenway Park |
26 | 06/24/1919 | BOS | Dick Robertson (R) | vs . Washington Senators | Fenway Park |
27 | 06/30/1919 | BOS | Bob Shawkey (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
28 | 07/05/1919 | BOS | Jing Johnson (R) | vs . Philadelphia Athletics | Fenway Park |
29 | 07/05/1919 | BOS | Jing Johnson (R) | vs . Philadelphia Athletics | Fenway Park |
30 | 07/10/1919 | BOS | Urban Shocker (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
31 | 07/12/1919 | BOS | Dave Danforth (L) | at Chicago White Sox | Comiskey Park |
32 | 07/18/1919 | BOS | Hi Jasper (R) | at Cleveland Indians | League Park |
33 | 07/18/1919 | BOS | Fritz Coumbe (L) | at Cleveland Indians | League Park |
34 | 07/21/1919 | BOS | Howard Ehmke (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
35 | 07/24/1919 | BOS | Bob Shawkey (R) | vs . New York Yankees | Fenway Park |
36 | 07/29/1919 | BOS | Dutch Leonard (L) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Fenway Park |
37 | 08/14/1919 | BOS | Dickie Kerr (L) | at Chicago White Sox | Comiskey Park |
38 | 08/16/1919 | BOS | Erskine Mayer (R) | at Chicago White Sox | Comiskey Park |
39 | 08/17/1919 | BOS | Urban Shocker (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
40 | 08/23/1919 | BOS | Hooks Dauss (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
41 | 08/24/1919 | BOS | Doc Ayers (R) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
42 | 08/24/1919 | BOS | Slim Love (L) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
43 | 08/25/1919 | BOS | Dutch Leonard (L) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
44 | 09/01/1919 | BOS | Jim Shaw (R) | vs . Washington Senators | Fenway Park |
45 | 09/05/1919 | BOS | Wynn Noyes (R) | at Philadelphia Athletics | Shibe Park |
46 | 09/08/1919 | BOS | Hank Thormahlen (L) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
47 | 09/20/1919 | BOS | Lefty Williams (L) | vs . Chicago White Sox | Fenway Park |
48 | 09/24/1919 | BOS | Bob Shawkey (R) | at New York Yankees | Polo Grounds |
49 | 09/27/1919 | BOS | Rip Jordan (R) | at Washington Senators | National Park |
50 | 05/01/1920 | NYY | Herb Pennock (L) | vs . Boston Red Sox | Polo Grounds |
51 | 05/02/1920 | NYY | Sad Sam Jones (R) | vs . Boston Red Sox | Polo Grounds |
52 | 05/11/1920 | NYY | Roy Wilkinson (R) | vs . Chicago White Sox | Polo Grounds |
53 | 05/11/1920 | NYY | Dickie Kerr (L) | vs . Chicago White Sox | Polo Grounds |
54 | 05/12/1920 | NYY | Lefty Williams (L) | vs . Chicago White Sox | Polo Grounds |
55 | 05/23/1920 | NYY | Carl Weilman (L) | vs . St. Louis Browns | Polo Grounds |
56 | 05/25/1920 | NYY | Dutch Leonard (L) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Polo Grounds |
57 | 05/26/1920 | NYY | Hooks Dauss (R) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Polo Grounds |
58 | 05/27/1920 | NYY | Harry Harper (L) | at Boston Red Sox | Fenway Park |
59 | 05/27/1920 | NYY | Benn Karr (R) | at Boston Red Sox | Fenway Park |
60 | 05/29/1920 | NYY | Joe Bush (R) | at Boston Red Sox | Fenway Park |
61 | 05/31/1920 | NYY | Walter Johnson (R) | vs . Washington Senators | Polo Grounds |
62 | 06/02/1920 | NYY | Tom Zachary (L) | vs . Washington Senators | Polo Grounds |
63 | 06/02/1920 | NYY | Leon Carlson (R) | vs . Washington Senators | Polo Grounds |
64 | 06/02/1920 | NYY | Bill Snyder (R) | s . Washington Senators | Polo Grounds |
65 | 06/10/1920 | NYY | Frank Okrie (L) | at Detroit Tigers | Navin Field |
66 | 06/13/1920 | NYY | Elmer Myers (R) | at Cleveland Indians | League Park |
67 | 06/16/1920 | NYY | Red Faber (R) | at Chicago White Sox | Comiskey Park |
68 | 06/17/1920 | NYY | Lefty Williams (L) | at Chicago White Sox | Comiskey Park |
69 | 06/23/1920 | NYY | Urban Shocker (R) | at St. Louis Browns | Sportsman's Park |
70 | 06/25/1920 | NYY | Herb Pennock (L) | vs . Boston Red Sox | Polo Grounds |
71 | 06/25/1920 | NYY | Herb Pennock (L) | vs . Boston Red Sox | Polo Grounds |
72 | 06/30/1920 | NYY | Lyle Bigbee (R) | at Philadelphia Athletics | Shibe Park |
73 | 06/30/1920 | NYY | Scott Perry (R) | at Philadelphia Athletics | Shibe Park |
74 | 07/09/1920 | NYY | Red Oldham (L) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Polo Grounds |
75 | 07/10/1920 | NYY | Hooks Dauss (R) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Polo Grounds |
76 | 07/11/1920 | NYY | Howard Ehmke (R) | vs . Detroit Tigers | Polo Grounds |