Focusing on the extraordinary 1926 baseball season, Baseball in the Roaring Twenties shows how baseball was inextricably linked with Prohibition, the Jazz Age, and the rise of sports gambling during the twenties.
Focusing on the extraordinary 1926 baseball season, Baseball in the Roaring Twenties shows how baseball was inextricably linked with Prohibition, the Jazz Age, and the rise of sports gambling during the twenties.
Thomas Wolf is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Nebraska, 2020), finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, and coauthor, with Patricia Bryan, of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction: The Roaring Twenties Part 1. The Teams 1. A Dynasty Is Born 2. Miller Huggins 3. The Cardinals and Rogers Hornsby 4. Spring Training in Terrell Woods 5. Spring Training in St. Petersburg Part 2. The Season 6. Opening Days 7. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb 8. Early Season Blues for the Redbirds 9. Grover Cleveland Alexander 10. Away from the Ballpark 11. Dutch Leonard Has a Story to Tell 12. Yankee Pitchers and Tony Lazzeri 13. Rube Foster and Black Baseball 14. Sesquicentennial Games 15. Judge Landis Takes Over 16. The Golden Age of Sports 17. Final Days Part 3. The Postseason 18. World Series Games One and Two 19. World Series Games Three, Four, and Five 20. World Series Games Six and Seven 21. The Colored World Series of 1926 22. Judge Landis Steps Up to the Plate Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction: The Roaring Twenties Part 1. The Teams 1. A Dynasty Is Born 2. Miller Huggins 3. The Cardinals and Rogers Hornsby 4. Spring Training in Terrell Woods 5. Spring Training in St. Petersburg Part 2. The Season 6. Opening Days 7. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb 8. Early Season Blues for the Redbirds 9. Grover Cleveland Alexander 10. Away from the Ballpark 11. Dutch Leonard Has a Story to Tell 12. Yankee Pitchers and Tony Lazzeri 13. Rube Foster and Black Baseball 14. Sesquicentennial Games 15. Judge Landis Takes Over 16. The Golden Age of Sports 17. Final Days Part 3. The Postseason 18. World Series Games One and Two 19. World Series Games Three, Four, and Five 20. World Series Games Six and Seven 21. The Colored World Series of 1926 22. Judge Landis Steps Up to the Plate Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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