New Mexico baseball : miners, outlaws, Indians, and isotopes, 1880 to the present / L.M. Sutter

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Contents: The land of enchantment -- Base ballists in the territory of New Mexico -- Picks, shovels, and bats -- Doing time : the penitentiary players -- A league, a town, a legend -- The flying Kellys -- Soldiers, cowboys, and baseball players : African Americans in New Mexico -- The king (no asterisk) -- The Connie Mack world series -- The Rio Abajo -- Making the ball sing
Summary: "This work traces the history of New Mexican baseball to the days of Billy the Kid and Geronimo. The author describes a kind of feudal society in those early years of the Wild West, where soldiers, miners, criminals, homesteaders, farmers, and the still unsubdued Apaches populated the land, but where baseball existed and was played"--Provided by publisher.