The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs

by Neil MacDonald and Neil W. MacDonald

In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of "molasses now, vinegar later" and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876.

That inaugural season of the National...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786417552
• ISBN13: 9780786417551
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher