pennant painters 1887-2003 beaneaters

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One Union: A History of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, 1887-2003
Aspatore Books Staff, James A. Williams, ...

Aspatore Books, 2004

From its early struggles to unify in the 1880s to its organizing and political triumphs of the 1990s, the IUPAT has sought to bring a better life for its members and a better world for all working men and women. This history tells the tales of those triumphs and struggles and in looking back traces the promise of the future for today?s IUPAT members and generations of members to follow. One Union: The History of the IUPAT should be required ...

A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

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Bill Felber

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Baseball in the late 19th century
Today we think of baseball as almost a gentleman's sport, with only occasional outbursts over disputed calls. In the late 19th century, however, the Baltimore Orioles epitomized the rough and tumble aspect of the game, and turned it from "baseball " into "basebrawl".The life of an umpire in that era was a very stressful one, with only one man assigned to cover the entire field, and be subjected ...