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
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Episodes
Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry
Episode 1 · 9:45
Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown
Episode 2 · 12:06
Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game
Episode 3 · 13:38
Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures
Episode 4 · 14:56
Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown
Episode 5 · 13:35
Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford
Episode 6 · 13:33
Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia
Episode 7 · 13:16
Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions
Episode 8 · 10:47
Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad
Episode 9 · 14:09
Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874
Episode 10 · 11:49
Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow
Episode 11 · 10:03
Chapter Twelve: With the National League
Episode 12 · 12:17
Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship
Episode 13 · 14:43
Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties
Episode 14 · 13:43
Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again
Episode 15 · 16:27
Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One
Episode 16 · 13:05
Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles
Episode 17 · 13:10
Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver
Episode 18 · 15:13
Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco
Episode 19 · 13:09
Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California
Episode 20 · 16:06
Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands
Episode 21 · 23:24
Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia
Episode 22 · 15:15
Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes
Episode 23 · 15:56
Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia
Episode 24 · 15:44
Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea
Episode 25 · 14:48
Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt
Episode 26 · 16:02
Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids
Episode 27 · 12:10
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy
Episode 28 · 15:14
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France
Episode 29 · 14:40
Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland
Episode 30 · 20:29
Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home"
Episode 31 · 22:16
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood
Episode 32 · 15:39
Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field
Episode 33 · 17:13
Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It