Chris Von der Ahe : typescript, c1992 : baseball's pioneering huckster / Richard Egenriether. c1992.

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Chris Von der Ahe : typescript, c1992 : baseball's pioneering huckster / Richard Egenriether. c1992.

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This paper gives us a look at the life of Chris Von der Ahe and the impact that this German immigrant had on baseball in the nineteenth century.

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Born in Germany in 1851, Christian Frederick Wilhelm Von der Ahe emigrated to the United States as a teenager when his family settled in St. Louis. The successful owner of a grocery-saloon, he became the self-styled "boss president" (owner) of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association in 1882. A fun-loving, fickle free-spender, he paid his players well but also fined them frequently, and sold off his best players from the team that won four consecutive American Association titles...

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