Item #14498 Humor Among the Minors: True Tales from the Baseball Brush. Edward Michael Ashenback.

Humor Among the Minors: True Tales from the Baseball Brush

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. 218 pp. 16 photographic plates including portraits of Hall of Famers Jim O'Rourke, John McGraw, Connie Mack and Hugh Jennings as well as other notable minor league officials and a composite team portrait of the Charlotte Baseball Club of 1902. Publisher's light brown cloth with green, red & white illustrated front cover; black lettering & illustration to spine. Fine condition with a hint of wear; the nicest copy we've seen. Item #14498

The book begins with a contemporary history of the minor leagues and continues with a large section of photo-illustrated memoirs & anecdotes concerning the famous & the unknown in the American, Western, Texas, Carolina and Central Associations as well as the rest of the Minor Leagues throughout the U.S. It concludes with mileage tables within all the Leagues.

Price: $350.00

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