Baseball's Union Association : The Short, Strange Life Of A 19Th-Century Major League

Mckinney, Justin, 1981- author.

EBook 2022

"Hastily formed in 1883 as a rival, third major league, the Union Association upset the moguls of the baseball world and disrupted the status quo. Backed by Henry V. Lucas, an impetuous 26-year-old millionaire from St. Louis, the UA existed for one chaotic season in 1884. This first full-length history of the Union Association tells the captivating story of the league's brief and enigmatic existence. Lucas recruited to the field a wild mix of dis...

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9781476647364

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Electronic reproduction. Jefferson McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2022 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Al Pratt's association
The very best of ball players
Enter Henry V. Lucas
The war begins
The union association takes the stage
"The finest! the nearest! the prettiest!"
One month in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Going to Kansas City
Independence Day in Washington
Baltimore's battle
"Bollicky" Bill and the "Wizard"
The hoss and the playboy
The bell tolls for the keystones
A matter of dollars and cents
The windy city blows out of town
A curse falls upon Delaware
The union goes North ... Western
Cream City chronicles
The vagabonds from Minnesota
The wild west and the race for third place
The associations face off
The real games begin
Almost equivalent to actual dishonesty
The double cross
What killed the union association?
The ghosts of the union
Henry Lucas opts out

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3340690

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