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A Ball Player's Career

Gelesen von Cavaet

The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably baseball's first superstar. - Summary by cavaet (9 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry

9:45

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Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown

12:06

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Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game

13:38

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Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures

14:56

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Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown

13:35

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Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford

13:33

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Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia

13:16

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Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions

10:47

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Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad

14:09

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Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874

11:49

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Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow

10:03

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Chapter Twelve: With the National League

12:17

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Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship

14:43

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Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties

13:43

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Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again

16:27

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Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One

13:05

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Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles

13:10

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Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver

15:13

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Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco

13:09

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Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California

16:06

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Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands

23:24

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Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia

15:15

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Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes

15:56

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Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia

15:44

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Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea

14:48

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Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt

16:02

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Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids

12:10

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Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy

15:14

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Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France

14:40

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Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland

20:29

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Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home"

22:16

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Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood

15:39

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Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field

17:13

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Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It

14:28

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Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent

9:20

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Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue

14:09

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Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping

11:17

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Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi

24:27

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