Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball
The Life of the Prolific League Founder, Scout, Manager and Unrivaled Huckster
Tom Coffman author Pat O’Neill author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:8th Oct '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In his day, perhaps no one in baseball was better known than Irish-born Timothy Paul "Ted" Sullivan. For 50 years, America's sportswriters sang his praises, genuflected to his genius and bought his blarney by the barrel. Damon Runyon dubbed him "The Celebrated Carpetbagger of Baseball."
Cunning, fast-talking, witty and sober, Sullivan was the game's first player agent, a groundbreaking scout who pulled future Hall of Famers from the bushes, an author, a playwright and a baseball evangelist who promoted the game across five continents. He coined the term "fan" and was among the first to suggest the designated hitter--because pitchers were "a lot of whippoorwill swingers." But he was also a convert to the Jim Crow attitudes of his day--black ballplayers were unimaginable to him.
Unearthing thousands of contemporaneous newspaper accounts, this first exhaustive biography of "Hustlin'" Ted Sullivan recounts the life and career of one of the greatest hucksters in the history of the game.
“Well researched and an engaging read.”—SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter
ISBN: 9781476684789
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 386g
285 pages