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Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years

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An engaging history of baseball in Baltimore—from the Excelsiors' first game in 1859 to the city's triumphant return to the majors in 1954.

Winner of the Maryland Historical Society Book Prize

The teams were the Marylands and Terrapins, the Drydocks and Pastimes, the Black Sox, the Elite Giants, and, of course, the Orioles. Players had names like Mule Suttles, Pee Wee Butts, and "Twitchy Dick" Porter—but also Wee Willie Keeler and John McGraw, Babe Ruth and Lefty Grove, Roy Campanella, Satc...