The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional
baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players
themselves, a response to the National League's salary cap and
"reserve rule," which bound players for life to one particular
team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a
star-studded group that included most of the best players of the
National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages
but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the
league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics
of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a
historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which
fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New
York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a
working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn
to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including
the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league
intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways
challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its
only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan
attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers
and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great
Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and
a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when
labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes.
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