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Maury Klein

Biography

Maury Klein

Maury Klein is the author of many books, including THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JAY GOULD; DAYS OF DEFIANCE: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War; and RAINBOW'S END: The Crash of 1929. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island.

Maury Klein

Books by Maury Klein

by Maury Klein - History, Nonfiction, Sports

The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in STEALING GAMES, they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era --- the cork-centered ball was introduced in 1910 and structurally changed not only the outcome of individual games but the way the game itself was played, requiring upgraded equipment, new rules and new ways of adjudicating.