The Land of Sand and Cotton: Texas, Workingmen, and Professional Baseball in 1888 - Hardcover
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The Land of Sand and Cotton: Texas, Workingmen, and Professional Baseball in 1888
The Texas League's first baseball season in 1888 took place during a turbulent political, economic, and cultural time in Texas. Amid the millions of acres of wild and rural Texas frontier boomed the cities of Galveston, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin, where the new state capitol building had just opened. The Texas economy was transitioning from its legendary cattle drives as...
William H. Brewster is a writer, a former financial services executive, and a U.S. Air Force veteran who served as a cryptologic linguist. He is the author of The Workingman's Game: Waverly, New York, the Twin Tiers and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1887-1898, finalist for the 2020 SABR Seymour Medal, and That Lively Railroad Town: Waverly, New York, and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1899-1901.
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