Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball

Download or read book Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronologically organized book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits and successful protests of major league baseball games, educating the reader on the rules and prevailing styles of play at the time that each of the games was played. In addition to the date, location, and source information, this work provides capsule biographies of many of the principal characters involved (including, for instance, the obscure one-game umpire who perpetrated the first forfeited game in major league history in 1871).