Research Catalog

Title

The arrival of the American League : Ban Johnson and the 1901 challenge to National League monopoly / Warren Wilbert.

Author

Wilbert, Warren N.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2007.

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Description

viii, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Johnson, Ban
• American League of Professional Baseball Clubs > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Baseball in the hinterlands -- Not minor but not yet major -- A new major league readies for debut -- The American League : season openers -- A pennant race is underway -- In the heat of July, 1901 -- The turn of the century and the American League race -- The first American League champion : Chicago bests Boston -- The junior circuit : major league in 1901? -- Toward 1902 ... and later -- The American League's best in 1901 -- Appendices -- A. Napoleon Lajoie, breach of contract and the great baseball war -- B. 1901 : the best in each league -- C. The 1901 American League all-rookie team -- D. Hall of famers active in the American league's inaugural season -- E. Best hitters and pitchers in the 1901 American League -- Chapter notes.

ISBN

• 9780786430130 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786430133 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007016480

OCLC

137324915

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library