Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship
Автор:
Noah BrooksЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-12-31Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
48
Description
The time is the late 19th century. In the rural Illinois town of Catalpa, the burgeoning new national pastime of baseball has become the defining phenomenon of the local culture. Due to the sport’s growing popularity, the wealthy and influential among the residents of Catalpa sponsor their local team to compete against some of the most successful and famous teams of the state, even going so far as to pay out-of-town talent princely sums to play for Catalpa against the best teams in the state—a shocking and scandalous move that seems almost prophetic when viewed from the modern 21st-century professional sports landscape.
Understood to be the first novel ever written primarily about the game of baseball and published within a decade of...
