Montana Baseball History

The Wild West had nothing on Montana's first baseball games. Fights, booze, cheating and gambling fueled the state's inaugural professional league in 1892. The turn of the century brought star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed. Big Sky Country embraced a distinctly different version of the old ballgame, and Montana players who made their way to big league diamonds helped change the sport on and off the field. From the Lewis and Clark expedition to Dave McNally's historic career, award-winning journalist Skylar Browning and researcher Jeremy Watterson reveal Montana's relationship with America's pastime.

Author: Skylar Browning, Jeremy Watterson
Publisher: History Press
Published: 06/15/2015
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781626199828
ISBN10: 1626199825
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Travel | United States | West | Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT,
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History