John Mcgraw

My Thirty Years in Baseball

My 30 Years in Baseball

My Thirty Years in Baseball

As a player and as a manager, John McGraw came to beat you, and he usually did. If winning could be done within the rules, that was fine; but he would use any means fair or foul if necessary. There were always those who claimed the "Little Napoleon" preferred the foul, but McGraw happily debunks tha...

The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball

In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall,...

John McGraw

“He ate gunpowder every morning,” complained one umpire, “and washed it down with warm blood.” That described John McGraw, who in the 1890s was the rowdiest member of the ferocious Baltimore Orioles, the club that pioneered the hit-and-run, the cutoff, the squeeze play, and the “Baltimore chop.” In ...

John McGraw

John Joseph McGraw (April 7, 1873 February 25, 1934), nicknamed "Little Napoleon" and "Muggsy", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player and long-time...