Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (George Vecsey - WH) brass George Armstrong Custer found the

George Armstrong Custer found the immortality that had eluded him during the War

and while more than 26

Davis smiled benevolently and replied

or captured in just a dozen hours of combat—a grim statistic that tells only part of the story

but often financial devastation as well

Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (George Vecsey - WH) brass George Armstrong Custer found theBaseball is a narrative of Americas can do spirit, in which stalwart immigrants such as Henry Chadwick could transplant cricket and rounders into the fertile American culture and in which die hard unionist baseballers such as Charles Comiskey and Connie Mack could eventually become the tightfisted avatars of the games big money establishment. Its a celebration of such underdogs as a rag armed catcher turned owner named Branch Rickey and a sure handed