Play Ball: Stories of the Ball Field
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play-ball-stories-of-the-ball-field-318-17058465
title:
Play Ball: Stories of the Ball Field
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Play Ball: Stories of the Ball Field is an 1888 autobiographical collection of baseball stories from Major League Baseball player King Kelly. Kelly had come to Boston one year earlier to play for the Boston Beaneaters. The book was organized and put together by Boston Globe journalist John J. "Jack" Drohan. Howard W. Rosenberg's 2004 biography of Kelly dispelled any notion that Boston reporter Jake Morse had been the ghostwriter, by quoting Drohan's involvement with the book at length, including
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1888 autobiographical collection by King Kelly
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Ball:_Stories_of_the_Ball_Field
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2023-08-26T22:09:11Z
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