Cap Anson 2 : the theatrical and kingly Mike Kelly : U.S. team sport's first media sensation and baseball's original Casey at the bat / Howard W. Rosenberg.
Reverse discriminators: the modern sports media -- Casey and Kelly -- "The Only" and "King" -- Humble beginnings -- Anson and Kelly: playing, hunting, and trap shooting -- Anson and Kelly: acting -- De Wolf Hopper, Digby Bell and other actor fans -- Backing up big injun Anson (1884-86) -- $10,000 beauty -- Boston, the Athens of America (1887) -- An alleged account of his life (1888) -- Kelly's bar and the 1888-89 world tour -- Imitating the mushy-mouthed actors (1889) -- Cottage Kelly (1890) -- Only two of us left, me and Edwin Booth (1891) -- Give Boston writers the laugh and quit the town (1892) -- With Billy Jerome and Johnny Ward (1893) -- With Mark Murphy and Albert L. Johnson (1894) -- Moments with Anson -- Drinking and other habits -- Betting on baseball -- Kelly's statistics -- Kelly and Conant.
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