The Arrival of the American League: Ban Johnson and the 1901 Challenge to National League Monopoly

By Warren Wilbert

In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786430133
• ISBN13: 9780786430130
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher