Boston's First Nine: The 1871-75 Boston Red Stockings

by Bob Lemoine

Before the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves, there were the Boston Red Stockings. They were "Boston's First Nine" and 1871 through 1875, they won four consecutive pennants in the old National Association, considered by many to be baseball's first major league. In this five-year period, the team only fielded 22 players -- but, then again, these were the days of the "one-man rotation." Who needed two pitchers, when one would do? And if that pitcher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943816298
• ISBN13: 9781943816293
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"