Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439925171ISBN-10:1439925178UPC:9781439925171Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, Wars & Conflicts, United StatesBook Topic:History, World War I, State & LocalSize:8.47 x 5.85 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCYEN6G5YQ
Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I
In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the world's greatest industrial baseball league. Appealing to Major League Baseball players looking to avoid service in the Great War, teams employed "ringers" like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson in what became scornfully known as "safe shelter" leagues. In Work, Fight, or Play Ball, William Ecenbarger fondly recounts this little-known story...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439925171ISBN-10:1439925178UPC:9781439925171Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, Wars & Conflicts, United StatesBook Topic:History, World War I, State & LocalSize:8.47 x 5.85 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCYEN6G5YQ
William Ecenbarger, a freelance writer, is the author of Pennsylvania Stories--Well Told (Temple), Walkin' the Line, Glory by the Wayside: The Old Churches of Hawaii, and Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.6 Million Kickback Scheme. He is the coauthor of Catching Lightning in a Bottle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World (with Winthrop H. Smith) and Making...
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