The Chalmers Race

The Chalmers Race
Author: Rick Huhn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2021-09
Genre: SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN: 149622938X

The Chalmers Race is the story of Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie and the controversial 1910 batting race.

The Chalmers Race

The Chalmers Race
Author: Rick Huhn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803271824

In 1910 auto magnate Hugh Chalmers offered an automobile to the baseball player with the highest batting average that season. What followed was a batting race unlike any before or since, between the greatest but most despised hitter, Detroit’s Ty Cobb, and the American League’s first superstar, Cleveland’s popular Napoleon Lajoie. The Chalmers Race captures the excitement of this strange contest—one that has yet to be resolved. The race came down to the last game of the season, igniting more interest among fans than the World Series and becoming a national obsession. Rick Huhn re-creates the drama that ensued when Cobb, thinking the prize safely his, skipped the last two games, and Lajoie suspiciously had eight hits in a doubleheader against the St. Louis Browns. Although initial counts favored Lajoie, American League president Ban Johnson, the sport’s last word, announced Cobb the winner, and amid the controversy both players received cars. The Chalmers Race details a story of dubious scorekeeping and statistical systems, of performances and personalities in conflict, of accurate results coming in seventy years too late, and of a contest settled not by play on the field but by human foibles.

Automotive Industries

Automotive Industries
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1318
Release: 1908
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

Vols. for 1919- include an Annual statistical issue (title varies).

Motor Age

Motor Age
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1492
Release: 1917
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN:

Baseball Meets the Law

Baseball Meets the Law
Author: Ed Edmonds
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476664382

Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball's exemption from antitrust laws applied to franchise relocations. Another court overturned the conviction of Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice. A third denied a request by rooftop entrepreneurs to enjoin the construction of a massive video screen at Wrigley Field. This exhaustive chronology traces the effects the law has had on the national pastime, both pro and con, on and off the field, from the use of copyright to protect not only equipment but also "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to frequent litigation between players and owners over contracts and the reserve clause. The stories of lawyers like Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Branch Rickey are entertainingly instructive.