The columnist writes about other people’s books, and today he discusses his own.
I never considered myself a historian.
As I said, I didn’t set out to chronicle history. I was tinkering with pitching a book of my past columns, but in going through my archives I found a trove of stories, columns andSo, blame Lasorda. Or this: In 1890, when Brooklyn joined the National League and won a second consecutive pennant – and, again, didn’t win what was known then as the “World’s Series,” a portent of things to come, maybe – a breakaway group of players formed its own league for a year, fed up with how owners were treating them. So no, the modern Players Association didn’t invent labor unrest in baseball. It was there well before Marvin Miller came along in the 1960s.
It was fun to discover the game as it was played in the 1880s and ’90s. The land acquisition process and construction of Ebbets Field was fascinating, as was the tidbit that owner Charlie Ebbets was convinced by a local sportswriter to name the park after himself.
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