Orator O'Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical

by Mike Roer (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $26.86

  Nicknamed Orator for his booming voice and his championing of the rights of professional athletes, Jim O'Rourke was a driving force bringing respectability to the role of professional baseball player. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of the national pastime from the Civil War through the deadball era.