Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines
The Many Lives and Outrageous Times of George and Alfred Lawson
Jerry
Kuntz
ISBN
978-0-7864-4375-8
26 photos, notes, bibliography, index
238pp.
softcover
2009
Available for immediate shipment
Description
It’s hard to imagine a wilder pair of brothers than Alfred and George Lawson. Best known as early promoters of professional baseball, they were intense rivals whose shared narcissism led them from one grand scheme to another, both in and away from the game, generating headlines as they went.
Alfred had a long career as a player, manager, and minor league organizer before gaining notoriety as a utopian novelist, philosopher, economic reformer, cult leader, and early aviation promoter. George was a soldier, vaudeville troupe manager, performing hypnotist, medical quack, evangelist, and anti-KKK crusader who sought to break baseball’s color line by founding integrated leagues.
About the Author
Jerry Kuntz is a baseball historian whose articles on the Lawson Brothers have been published in Base Ball, A Journal of the Early Game and The Baseball Research Journal. He lives in Warwick, New York.
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