COMISKEY: Remembrances of the Major League's First 37 Years of Baseball, 1876-1913
Book Details
Author(s)CHARLES COMISKEY
ISBN / ASINB017V6PNGQ
ISBN-13978B017V6PNG6
Sales Rank1,382,966
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Charles Albert Comiskey (1859 – 1931), nicknamed "Commy" or "The Old Roman", was an American Major League Baseball player, manager and team owner. He was a key person in the formation of the American League, and was also founding owner of the Chicago White Sox. Comiskey Park, the White Sox' storied baseball stadium, was built under his guidance and named for him.
Comiskey was inducted as an executive into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
In this book Comiskey writes:
"Baseball wins because it is a man size game, because it has no room for the quitter or the pessimist, because the men who make good in it are the men who can take a hard knock and get back on their feet again to take another knock—or maybe to give one! The bleachers know this as well as the players. That is why the American nation goes to the ball game. I do not believe that there is any training for a youngster that will make him into a man quicker, the kind of a man who can stand on his own feet, than an apprenticeship on the diamond.
"When I stop to take a sort of mental bird's eye view it makes me realize that I am one of the very few men in the active game who have seen Baseball developed practically from the cradle. We see it to-day the great American sport; a business enterprise requiring an annual operating expense of ten million dollars; a definite profession giving profitable employment to seven thousand men. And yet when I donned my first uniform under Ted Sullivan back in the latter seventies, Baseball, for the most part, was the diversion of sports rather than of sportsmen. "
This book originally published in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional imperfection from the original publication or from the reformatting.
Comiskey was inducted as an executive into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
In this book Comiskey writes:
"Baseball wins because it is a man size game, because it has no room for the quitter or the pessimist, because the men who make good in it are the men who can take a hard knock and get back on their feet again to take another knock—or maybe to give one! The bleachers know this as well as the players. That is why the American nation goes to the ball game. I do not believe that there is any training for a youngster that will make him into a man quicker, the kind of a man who can stand on his own feet, than an apprenticeship on the diamond.
"When I stop to take a sort of mental bird's eye view it makes me realize that I am one of the very few men in the active game who have seen Baseball developed practically from the cradle. We see it to-day the great American sport; a business enterprise requiring an annual operating expense of ten million dollars; a definite profession giving profitable employment to seven thousand men. And yet when I donned my first uniform under Ted Sullivan back in the latter seventies, Baseball, for the most part, was the diversion of sports rather than of sportsmen. "
This book originally published in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional imperfection from the original publication or from the reformatting.
