Title: A Game of Brawl
First published: 2007
Description: "It was probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history. And it was a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book recreates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the dirtiest team in baseball. Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and "Foxy" Ned Hanlon were proven winners - but their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air."

"Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country's history to that time. His book captures the drama of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball's first and most notorious evil empire."--Jacket.
Subjects: Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team), Baseball, Boston Red Sox (Baseball team), History, Boston Braves (Baseball team), c 1800 to c 1900, Sports & Recreation, Sports, USA, Baseball - History, United States - 19th Century, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History, 19th century, Baltimore, Boston, Maryland, Massachusetts, United States, Baltimore orioles (baseball team), Baseball, history, Sports, united states
Places: Baltimore, Boston, Maryland, Massachusetts, United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: GV863.M32 B354 2007