Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game (Volume 1) Richard J. Bernstein A striking memoir that travels

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Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game (Volume 1) Richard J. Bernstein A striking memoir that travelsIn its infancy, major league baseball was anyones game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed club based teams into the first professional federations with formalized rulesand commercial considerations. This two volume workwith its profiles of every key contributor to the major league game from May 4, 1871, through December 31, 1900is truly inside