New Mexico baseball
Subtitle: miners, outlaws, Indians, and isotopes, 1880 to the present
By: L. M. Sutter
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780786441228
Description: "This work traces the history of New Mexican baseball to the days of Billy the Kid and Geronimo. The author describes a kind of feudal society in those early years of the Wild West, where soldiers, miners, criminals, homesteaders, farmers, and the still unsubdued Apaches populated the land, but where baseball existed and was played"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: The land of enchantment; title: Base ballists in the territory of New Mexico; title: Picks, shovels, and bats; title: Doing time : the penitentiary players; title: A league, a town, a legend; title: The flying Kellys; title: Soldiers, cowboys, and baseball players : African Americans in New Mexico; title: The king (no asterisk); title: The Connie Mack world series; title: The Rio Abajo; title: Making the ball sing.