Ball Player's Career
by Adrian C. Anson
About this book
The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably baseball's first superstar. - Summary by cavaet
Chapters (38)
1Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry
2Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown
3Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game
4Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures
5Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown
6Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford
7Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia
8Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions
9Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad
10Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874
11Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow
12Chapter Twelve: With the National League
13Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship
14Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties
15Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again
16Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One
17Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles
18Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver
19Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco
20Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California
21Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands
22Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia
23Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes
24Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia
25Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea
26Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt
27Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids
28Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy
29Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France
30Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland
31Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home"
32Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood
33Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field
34Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It
35Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent
36Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue
37Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping
38Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi
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