| Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly Contributor(s): Appel, Marty (Author), Ritter, Lawrence S. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1578860032 ISBN-13: 9781578860036 Publisher: Scarecrow Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: Mike King Kelly was a hard-living, hard-drinking baseball Hall of Famer, a two-time battting champion and daring base runner whose skill and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero and one of America's first celebrities in the 1880s and 1890s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98-55703 |
| Series: American Sports History |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.39" W x 8.47" (0.75 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a celebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s. Slide, Kelly, Slide reacquaints baseball fans and scholars with this little-known pioneer of the game. Marty Appel, the author of several baseball books, conducted a thorough search of local archives to bring the story of King Kelly to light and place him in his proper historical context. An innovator on the field, who was not above taking advantage of the only umpire running the game, Kelly touched many aspects of American culture while a ballplayer. He was the first player to sign autographs, and wrote the game's first autobiography. A Hall of Famer and a two-time batting champion, Kelly's greatest contribution was the popularity that he brought to the game. Slide, Kelly, Slide will truly delight. |