Title: The Irish in baseball
First published: 2009
Description: "Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood. This is a survey of the enormous contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Baseball, history, Irish americans, Ireland, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigration, Baseball, History, Irish American baseball players, Emigration and immigration
LC classification: GV863.A1 F63 2009