Outlaw Ballplayers: Interviews and Profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League

by R.G. Utley and Tim Peeler

Book Overview

The players of the independent Carolina League were outlaws. A diverse lot that included preachers and ex-cons, with many former and future Major Leaguers, they played ball during the desperate years of the Great Depression, when half of organized professional baseball's minor leagues went broke and ceased operations. Despite the number of defaulting leagues and teams, the players were held to their prior contracts, and many found themselves unemployed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786426144
• ISBN13: 9780786426140
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher