Full Count by Brad Herzog & Bruce Langton

Author:Brad Herzog & Bruce Langton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2009-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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In the mid–nineteenth century, the most popular team sport in America made use of a bat and ball. However, it wasn’t baseball. It was a somewhat similar game called cricket. But that would soon change. In the late 1860s, Harry Wright, a star cricket player who was born in England, was hired to manage a new baseball team called the Cincinnati Red Stockings. He hired the best players money could buy on what was the first openly all–professional baseball club (before then, many top players had been secretly paid). The team’s total payroll was $9,300.

The Red Stockings toured the country, traveling nearly 12 thousand miles by train and popularizing the game immensely. The 10 players on the team became famous, mostly because they wouldn’t lose. They won every one of their 57 games in 1869 and ran their winning streak to 81 games the following year before the team was disbanded. By then, baseball was on its way to becoming the national pastime.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were baseball’s first group of pros.

A team of just 10 players, they beat most all their foes.

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