The American game

A history of baseball from 1949-1964, focusing on the incredible New York Yankees who won fourteen of sixteen American League pennants and became champions of the world nine times.

Gives the history of major-league baseball from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Discusses the changes in professional major league baseball during the 1920s, including the pennant race scandal in 1920, the founding of the Negro Leagues, Babe Ruth's career, the farm system, and more.