Reporting Baseball's Sensational Season of 1890: The Brotherhood War and the Rise of Modern Sports Journalism

by Scott D. Peterson

When the members of the first baseball players' union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism became less of a "curiosity shop" phenomenon and moved into the mainstream. Baseball writers Henry Chadwick, T.H. Murnane, and Ella Black covered the labor struggle on the field and in the front offices--and took sides: one as a mouthpiece for the capitalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786473681
• ISBN13: 9780786473687
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher