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Before they were cardinals : major league baseball in nineteenth-century St. Louis

This text examines the booms and busts of major-league baseball in St Louis during the last quarter of the 19th century. The author's analysis begins with an exploration of that which motivated civic leaders to form the city's first major-league baseball club.
eBook, English, ©2002
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2002
History
1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations.
9780826263704, 9781417528509, 0826263704, 1417528508
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010