Textile League Baseball: South Carolina's Mill Teams, 1880-1955

by Thomas K. Perry

Book Overview

After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradition of a mill village, usually owned by the mill's owner, where the workers and their families lived. The new game of baseball quickly became a foundation of mill village life.

A rich tradition of textile league baseball in South Carolina is here reconstructed from newspaper accounts and interviews with former players and fans. Players...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786418753
• ISBN13: 9780786418756
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher