Baseball fiends and flying machines
Subtitle: the many lives and outrageous times of George and Alfred Lawson
By: Jerry Kuntz.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780786443758
Subjects: Lawson, George, -- 1864-; Lawson, Alfred W. -- 1869-1954; Baseball -- United States -- Biography; Aeronautics -- United States -- Biography; Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Alfred had a long career as a player, manager, and minor league organizer before gaining notoriety as a utopian novelist, philosopher, economic reformer, cult leader, and early aviation promoter. George was a soldier, vaudeville troupe manager, performing hypnotist, medical quack, evangelist, and anti-KKK crusader who sought to break baseball's color line by founding integrated leagues"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.