| Baseball in Long Beach Contributor(s): Meigs, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738558230 ISBN-13: 9780738558233 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Travel | Special Interest - Sports |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 2007941841 |
| Series: Images of Baseball |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.55" W x 9.21" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Organized baseball in Long Beach dates to 1910, when the Long Beach Clothiers of the Southern California Trolley League played opponents wherever a streetcar could take them. Exhibition games later featured Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and other Major League barnstormers. Homegrown talent includes Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Tony Gwynn. Pioneering entrepreneur Bill Feistner built the first accommodating baseball park in 1922 at Redondo Avenue and Stearns Street in the shadow of oil-rich Signal Hill. When ballplayers weren t on the Shell Park diamond, they worked the derricks." |
Contributor Bio(s): Meigs, Tom: - Author Tom Meigs, an electronic-game developer, previously published Ultimate Game Design: Building Game Worlds. He pieced together this window into Long Beach s sporting past with the help of the Old Timers, a group of legendary Long Beach area baseball players, scouts, umpires, and enthusiasts, as well as the Long Beach Collection at the Long Beach Public Library and The Topps Company, Inc. |