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Baseball is played in all corners of the world, so it is no surprise to learn that some of the greatest hardballers of all time never played on a U.S. major league diamond. Who knows what major league records would have been shattered had Sadaharu Oh of Japan, Josh Gibson of the Negro Leagues, Martin Dihigo of Cuba, Francisco Coimbre of Puerto Rico and Hector Espino of Mexico played in the United States. This work is a survey of the greatest baseball players who never played in the U.S. major leagues. The greatest players from the various professional leagues outside organized baseball in the United States are reviewed, and all-star teams are selected for each league. Finally, the author selects an "all-world all-star team" from the individual all-star teams from Japan, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Negro Leagues.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Baseball in the Nineteenth Century
2. An Overview of Baseball (1900-1950)
3. An Overview of Baseball (1951-2000)
4. Negro League All-Star Team (1900-1925)
5. Negro League All-Star Team,(1926-1950)
6. The All-Time Negro League All-Star Team, and the Negro League Hall of Fame
7. Cuban Winter League All-Star Team (1882-1960)
8. Japanese Professional All-Star Team
9. Puerto Rican Winter League All-Star Team
10. The Mexican League All-Stars
11. Other Leagues
12. The Ultimate Other All-Star Team
Statistical Tables
Bibliography
Index
About the author
William F. McNeil is a longtime baseball historian and the author of numerous books on the game. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), he is the recipient of five Robert Peterson awards for increasing the public's awareness of the Negro Leagues. He lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
