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Article: Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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By Jon David Cash. Sports and American Culture Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 279. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1401-0.)
When modern fans think about professional baseball in St. Louis, they usually focus on the highly successful Cardinals. Jon David Cash instead examines that franchise in its predecessor guise as the Brown Stockings (more commonly, the Browns) in this study of the origins of pro baseball in St. Louis from 1875 through the early 1890s. He organizes the book around several overlapping themes: the commercial and sporting rivalry betweeen St. Louis and Chicago; the key role played by St. Louis saloon owner ...