A collection of essays which "describe developments in the game's past, assess their impact, and explain how they reflect the period in which they occurred; ...
Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated s
The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the country
Although on the decline, the threat of gambling on games continued menacing baseball in the 1880s. One issue that certainly was not in decline, however, was the
After the 1889 baseball season, the players of the National League, furious over their treatment by NL owners, decided to secede from the National League and st
