Allentown Buffaloes Players - Abie Hood, Bullet Joe Bush, Dad Lytle, Dan Casey, Ed Lytle, Fielder Jones, Fred Lake, Gene Steere, George Gore, George (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Abie Hood, Bullet Joe Bush, Dad Lytle, Dan Casey, Ed Lytle, Fielder Jones, Fred Lake, Gene Steere, George Gore, George Wood (baseball), Harley Payne, Harry Raymond, Jack Rafter, Jesse Duryea, Jim Long (baseball), Jocko Milligan, Joe Mulvey, Joe Pate, Johnny Pasek, King Kelly, Mark Baldwin (baseball), Mike Kilroy, Milt Whitehead, Pat Friel, Pete Sweeney, Reddy Mack, Sam Wise, Tom Dowse, Tom Power. Excerpt: As manager Michael Joseph "King" Kelly (December 31, 1857 - November 8, 1894) was an American right fielder, catcher, and manager in various professional American baseball leagues including the National League, International Association, Players' League, and the American Association. He spent the majority of his 16-season playing career with the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Beaneaters. Kelly was a player-manager three times in his career - in 1887 for the Beaneaters, in 1890 leading the Boston Reds to the pennant in the only season of the Players' League's existence, and in 1891 for the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers - before his retirement in 1893. He is also often credited with helping to popularize various strategies as a player such as the hit and run, the hook slide, and the catcher's practice of backing up first base. In only the second vote since its creation in 1939 the Old Timers Committee elected Kelly to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945. In concluding where to truly give Kelly credit as an innovator, a 2004 book devoted to 19th-century rule bending in baseball-and which came close to exhaustively accounting for all contemporary reporting on various subjects-placed stress on the following: "Kelly's hook slide does sound special, and players probably tried to copy it. Also, he seems to have been the first big leaguer to successfully cut a base (when the usually lone umpire wasn't looking), ...