1901: The War of the Baseball Magnates: How the battle for baseball supremacy shaped the future of America's pastime. (The Baseball War Series)

Nominated for the Larry Ritter Award by the Society for American Baseball Research In the spring of 1901, professional baseball began to come apart. Owners turned on one another. Players vanished in the night, jumping contracts they no longer feared. Secret syndicates treated rosters like stock portfolios. Newspapers fanned rumors, stoked panic, and chose sides. As two rival major leagues went to war, no one could say with certainty whether the national game would survive the year intact. 1901: The War of the Baseball Magnates tells the story of that chaotic season — the battles behind the box scores, the deals struck in smoke-filled rooms, and the power struggle that reshaped the sport forever. As the National League staggered under public distrust and internal division, a defiant American League rose under the leadership of Ban Johnson, challenging baseball's entrenched order and rewriting the rules of control. Drawing on extensive research and contemporary accounts, Zarley takes readers inside a world where contracts meant little, loyalty was negotiable, and authority depended more on leverage than law. Owners, executives, managers, and players all gambled — sometimes recklessly — on the future of the game, unaware that their choices would lay the foundations of modern professional baseball. The 1901 season changed baseball forever. Discover how it happened.
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Author/Artist:Zarley, Timothy J.
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