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A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

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Not only was once it some of the cutthroat pennant race in baseball history, it was once 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 once that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air.

 

Bill Felber brings to life probably the most intensely watched team sporting event within the country’s history to that point. His book captures the drama of the general week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And in the end, 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 carry ten thousand to look at the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball’s first and so much notorious evil empire.

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