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The emerald diamond : how the Irish transformed America's greatest pastime / Charley Rosen.

by Rosen, Charles.

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New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2012.

Baseball -- History.

Irish American baseball players.

9780062089885 :

xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The Irish game -- Humble beginnings. Arrival ; Present-day interview : Glenn Patrick Sherlock ; Blocked at home plate ; NINA ; The first Irish stars ; More Irish firsts ; Present-day interview : Eric O'Flaherty -- The Emerald Age. They would be giants ; Molly Maguires ; Superstar ; Brotherhood ; Present-day interview : Ryan Roberts ; Spikes up ; Last slide ; Nice guys finish first ; Kill the ump ; More Irish record setting ; Present-day interview : Barry Enright -- A new century. The Delahanty brothers ' A new league ; Mr. Mack ; Present-day interview : Ruth Mack Clark ; Take me out to the ball game ; Faustian bargain ; Scandal and war ; They're all good Irish names ; The alert Irishman ; Homer in the gloamin' ; A real Casey ; Present-day interview : John Flaherty ; Wartime -- Postwar to the present. The fabulous fifties ; The crazy Sixties ; Green and gold ; The hidden potato trick ; Century's end and Irish resurgence ; Eire apparent : a visit to the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame.

Chronicles the Irish and their impact on baseball, citing influential Irish figures on and off the diamond, exploring their many contributions and interweaving interviews with modern-day Irish players, managers, and executives.

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