AUTHOR - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/98717.xml AUTHOR - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Chicago Tribune to Biographer of Racist Early Chicago Baseball Star: Drop Dead; Another Victory for 'Old Boys Network' Publishers that Stress Style over Substance http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb527939.htm Since 2006, the Chicago Tribune has been sitting on the first-ever definitive biography of longtime Chicago captain-manager Cap Anson, who played for the local National League club for 22 seasons, 19 as captain-manager. Also in 2006, the Tribune, in a bid to project a "hip" image to its coveted younger readership, didn't quibble when the Cubs' front office bypassed Anson in naming the five most significant players in franchise history, as part of a Major League Baseball-wide contest. Most recently, the Tribune's annual book fair earlier this month rejected the Anson biographer's application to speak, even though Anson is one of just two people to have been called a "son of a bitch" on the pages of either of Chicago's two main dailies in the past 15 years (the other is Saddam Hussein). (PRWeb May 22, 2007)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb527939.htm Major Library Book Review Magazines Censoring 'Architect of Baseball Segregation' Cap Anson While Touting Relatively Insignificant Hall of Famer Tris Speaker http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/03/prweb354634.htm The two most broad-based magazines that U.S. libraries rely on to screen new books summarily decided to censor a straightforward, definitive 2006 biography of Cap Anson, the Hall of Fame baseball player most often blamed for baseball's color line. (PRWeb Mar 7, 2006)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/03/prweb354634.htm Black History Month Surprise: The Meatiest Baseball Biography of 2006 will be on Cap Anson, the Player Most Blamed for the Most Infamous Color Line in U.S. Sports History http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/02/prweb336773.htm This spring will mark the release of the definitive biography of the player most often blamed for the advent of baseball's color line, Cap Anson. Before serving as city clerk of Chicago exactly a century ago, he was the only player through 1900 to reach 3,000 hits. He played 27 seasons, 1871 to 1897, mainly for Chicago of the National League, when it was known as the White Stockings or the Colts (it was later re-dubbed the Cubs). One of his teammates was future evangelist Billy Sunday. In announcing his 2006 book Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson of Chicago (560 pages, 24 straight pages of which will address Anson's racial and ethnic prejudice and its alleged impacts), author Howard W. Rosenberg points to the record of bias of U.S. mainstream media in favor of 20th-century Hall of Famers. (PRWeb Feb 1, 2006)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/02/prweb336773.htm Cap Anson 3, a Definitive Baseball Book on Tricky and Dirty Play, Being Released on 100th Anniversary of Anson's Election as City Clerk of Chicago http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/03/prweb223358.htm Politics and baseball clashed recently in the halls of the U.S. Congress, where lawmakers looked into steroid use by major league players. The interplay between baseball and politics goes way back, and 100 years ago saw the election of the first former big league star to high elective office, beyond the likes of small-town mayor. The star was Cap Anson, who held Chicago's third-highest post, city clerk, from 1905 to 1907. (PRWeb Mar 31, 2005)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/03/prweb223358.htm Boston Globe Put its Imprimatur in 2004 Behind Alumnus’s Ted Williams Book While Snubbing the Definitive Book on Popular, Fellow Boston HOF'er Mike ''King'' Kelly http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb183097.htm In an example of turning history on its head, the books and sports departments of the once-honorable Boston Globe several times each touted a 2004 Ted Williams baseball book by one of its living, former writers, Leigh Montville, through serializing, reviewing and occasional plugging. At the same time, the Globe has entirely ignored an indisputably definitive 2004 book about another Boston Hall of Famer, Mike ''King'' Kelly, who late, legendary Globe columnist Harold Kaese called ''probably the most popular player in all of Boston baseball history.'' A plausible reason why the Globe, for the past decade, has probably shunned Kelly, who played in Boston mainly for the National League and Players’ League, is because he would drive a hole through its manipulation of the city’s long baseball history to filter everything through the Red Sox. (PRWeb Dec 1, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb183097.htm Boston Globe Put its Imprimatur in 2004 Behind Alumnus’s Ted Williams Book While Snubbing the Definitive Book on Popular, Fellow Boston HOF'er Mike "King" Kelly http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb184677.htm In an example of turning history on its head, the books and sports departments of the once-honorable Boston Globe several times each touted a 2004 Ted Williams baseball book by one of its living, former writers, Leigh Montville, through serializing, reviewing and occasional plugging. At the same time, the Globe has entirely ignored an indisputably definitive 2004 book about another Boston Hall of Famer, Mike ''King'' Kelly, who late, legendary Globe columnist Harold Kaese called ''probably the most popular player in all of Boston baseball history.'' A plausible reason why the Globe, for the past decade, has probably shunned Kelly, who played in Boston mainly for the National League and Players’ League, is because he would drive a hole through its manipulation of the city’s long baseball history to filter everything through the Red Sox. (PRWeb Dec 1, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb184677.htm Author Can Discuss Historical Ties Between Sports and the Theater (such as "Casey at the Bat" anniversary August 14, or baseball/boxing ties of Drew Barrymore's great-grandfather) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/07/prweb140078.htm On August 14, 1888, eight years before the first modern Olympics, the dramatic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first recited on stage. At the time, ties between baseball and the theater were especially close. A new book, besides laying out the extensive baseball friendships among famous actors up to 1900 (including Drew Barrymore's great-grandfather), is the definitive biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who was the most likely inspiration for Casey. (PRWeb Jul 14, 2004)

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