The Irish in Baseball: An Early History

by David L . Fleitz (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $27.00

  A survey of the contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together. It features chapters that cover the Irish and early immigrants in Boston; the Chicago White Stockings; the Shamrocks, Trojans and Giants; Charlie Comiskey; Patsy Tebeau and the Hibernian Spiders; and, more.