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The Wonder Team in the White City

The Wonder Team in the White City


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Located in Burlington, thirty-five miles south of the Canadian border, the University of Vermont -- commonly called U.V.M. because of its Latin name, Universitas Viridis Montis -- has neither the geography nor the climate of a typical college baseball powerhouse. In fact, in 2009 it did away with its varsity baseball program altogether. Yet in the early 1890s U.V.M. fielded a 'varsity baseball team as competitive as any in the country. Dr. Frank Sexton, Brown's star pitcher of that era who went on to coach at Michigan, Brown, and Harvard until 1914, said that "without question he regarded the Vermont teams of '90 to '93 as the best college baseball teams that he had ever seen in action." Over those four seasons the U.V.M. nine came to be known as the "Wonder Team," compiling a record of 129-57-4 (.694) against top college and semi-professional teams, and even two National League clubs. It reached its apex when it participated in the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This book examines the secrets of the Wonder Team's success: who its players were, how they got to be so good, and what happened to them when they played in what was essentially the first College World Series.
About the Author: Founder of SABR's Gardner-Waterman (Vermont) Chapter and Deadball Era Committee, Tom Simon lives with his wife, Carolyn, and children, Nolan and Calista, in Burlington, Vermont, walking distance from the U.V.M. campus and biking distance from the former site of Athletic Park. He edited Green Mountain Boys of Summer: Vermonters in the Major Leagues, 1882-1993 (New England Press), winner of The Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award for the year 2000. Tom is a partner in the Burlington law firm of McCormick, Fitzpatrick, Kasper & Burchard, P.C., and serves on the boards of Preservation Burlington and Burlington American Little League.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781453847312
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 222 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1453847316
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jan 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 133 mm

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