The Federal Case

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>Who really owns the National Pastime?</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>WINNER Best Legal Thriller of the Year 2024 American Fiction Awards</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>It seems so simple so pure. But behind the green grass and iconic heroes professional baseball has always been driven by greed ambition a thirst for fame a lust for power and a ceaseless conflict of motives that go far beyond winning and losing. Peel back the veneer with The Deadball Files.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>This critically acclaimed series features present-day mysteries and legal dramas grounded in events and personalities from the early days of baseball.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>Who really owns the National Pastime?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>In 1914 the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs declared itself a major league and began pirating players from the established leagues. Ban Johnson the most powerful man in Major League Baseball led the fierce resistance to this move and in 1915 the Federal League collapsed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>But was that the whole story?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>A century later young night-schooled lawyer Andy Dennum stumbles across an old file containing a single document that might suggest otherwise. His firm shows no interest and Andy is later fired.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>But Andy has other ideas. Assisted by his girlfriend professional cartographer and amateur genealogist Keiley Barefoot he follows a series of leads to a conclusion he never expected. And he finds himself in a courtroom facing his old nemesis the senior partner who fired him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>At stake? Not only the viability of Major League Baseball's business model but Andy's future as a lawyer and even his sense of self.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>Discover the history as you unravel the mystery.</span></p>