The Irish in baseball

By David L. Fleitz

Subjects: Irish American baseball players, Emigration and immigration, History, Baseball, Irish Americans, United states, emigration and immigration, Ireland, emigration and immigration, Irish americans, Baseball, history

Description: "Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood. This is a survey of the enormous contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together"--Provided by publisher.