The League That Failed

by David Quentin Voigt

The League That Failed cuts through the haze that surrounds 19th-century baseball history, and portrays a classic, colorful era when baseball was chaotic, struggled over by players, coaches, sportswriters, fans, and owners. It recounts the stormy atmosphere after the Inter-League Wars of 1890 and 1891, when the victorious National League made a bald-faced bid to monopolize major league baseball in the United States, succeeding for eight years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810833093
• ISBN13: 9780810833098
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"