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A Ball Player's Career

First published: 1900
Pages: 309

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Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry
9:45
Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown
12:06
Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game
13:38
Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures
14:56
Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown
13:35
Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford
13:33
Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia
13:16
Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions
10:47
Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad
14:09
Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874
11:49
Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow
10:03
Chapter Twelve: With the National League
12:17
Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship
14:43
Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties
13:43
Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again
16:27
Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One
13:05
Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles
13:10
Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver
15:13
Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco
13:09
Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California
16:06
Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands
23:24
Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia
15:15
Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes
15:56
Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia
15:44
Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea
14:48
Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt
16:02
Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids
12:10
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy
15:14
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France
14:40
Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland
20:29
Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home"
22:16
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood
15:39
Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field
17:13
Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It
14:28
Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent
9:20
Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue
14:09
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping
11:17
Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi
24:27

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One of the greatest baseball players of all time, Adrian C. Anson, is profiled in "A Ball Player's Career." Anson had an amazing 27-year career that included time as both a player and manager with the Chicago Cubs.

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Adrian Constantine Anson

Adrian Constantine Anson was a pioneering professional baseball player, captain, and manager widely known as Cap Anson. Born in Iowa in 1852, he spent most of his long career with Chicago and helped the club win six National League pennants between 1876 and 1886.

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