Ebook: Our game: an American baseball history

The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League -- The dead-ball era -- War, scandal, and Babe Ruth -- The golden twenties -- The gray thirties -- War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow -- Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises -- The expansion era -- The end of feudalism -- The embattled eighties -- Non-sesquicentennial reflections.