Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in
baseball history, it was also a struggle to define how
baseball would be played. A Game of Brawl re-creates the
rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and
the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the
dirtiest team in baseball. Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee
Willie Keeler, and “Foxy” Ned Hanlon were proven winners—but
their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So
it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly
Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air. Â Bill Felber
brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in
the country’s history to that time. His book captures the drama
of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series.
And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game,
when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and
walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the
Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball’s first and
most notorious evil empire.
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