Article: The Tour to End all Tours: The Story of Major League baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)

James E. Elfers. The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 292 pp. Paper, $24.95.

Historians and fans of baseball will find much to admire in James Elfers's fast-paced account of the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants' barnstorming trip around the world on the eve of World War I. Bringing to life a cast of colorful characters, ranging from Jim Thorpe to Christy Mathewson and from Charles Comiskey to John McGraw, The Tour to End All Tours plots the crafting of the great tour, its antecedents in Albert Spalding's similar worldwide excursion twenty-five years before, and the ...

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