That Lively Railroad Town: Waverly, New York and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1899-1901


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That Lively Railroad Town tells the intertwined stories of minor and major league baseball at the turn of the twentieth century. In central New York, a small town used its championship semi-pro team to ease the stigma of a salacious local murder case, while its former second baseman led a boycott of major league player contracts to break the National League's monopoly and set the game up to flourish. This sequel to The Workingman's Game weaves these stories against a backdrop of economic, racial, ethnic and labor strife, and an assassination that shocked the world.




Author: William H. Brewster
Publisher: Luminare Press
Published: 12/17/2020
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781643884349
ISBN10: 1643884344
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History