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
Chapters
1 Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry 10 min 2 Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown 12 min 3 Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game 14 min 4 Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures 15 min 5 Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown 14 min 6 Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford 14 min 7 Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia 13 min 8 Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions 11 min 9 Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad 14 min 10 Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874 12 min 11 Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow 10 min 12 Chapter Twelve: With the National League 12 min 13 Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship 15 min 14 Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties 14 min 15 Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again 16 min 16 Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One 13 min 17 Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles 13 min 18 Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver 15 min 19 Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco 13 min 20 Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California 16 min 21 Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands 23 min 22 Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia 15 min 23 Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes 16 min 24 Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia 16 min 25 Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea 15 min 26 Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt 16 min 27 Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids 12 min 28 Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy 15 min 29 Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France 15 min 30 Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland 20 min 31 Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home" 22 min 32 Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood 16 min 33 Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field 17 min 34 Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It 14 min 35 Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent 9 min 36 Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue 14 min 37 Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping 11 min 38 Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi 24 min
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