That Lively Railroad Town: Waverly New York and the Making of Modern Baseball 1899-1901

That Lively Railroad Town tells the intertwined stories of minor and major league baseball at the turn of the twentieth century. In central New York a small town used its championship semi-pro team to ease the stigma of a salacious local murder case while its former second baseman led a boycott of major league player contracts to break the National Leagues monopoly and set the game up to flourish. This sequel to The Workingmans Game weaves these stories against a backdrop of economic racial ethnic and labor strife and an assassination that shocked the world.