The Arrival of the American League

Ban Johnson and the 1901 Challenge to National League Monopoly

• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert,
• Publisher: McFarland
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 0786430133
  ISBN_13: 9780786430130
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History ,

Description:...

In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.