Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut (Paperback)

Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut (Paperback)

Author: William J. Ryczek, David Arcidiacono
Category: Baseball
ISBN: 9780786436774
Format : Paperback
Publisher : McFarland & Co Inc Pub

  

Its been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseballand many fans today might be surprised to learn that the state ever didbut in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded pioneering professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the states final big league team, Mark Twain''s beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National League, baseballs transition from amateur pastime to major league sport had been accomplished. And Connecticutt had played a significant role in its development.