Fort Dodge and the Royalty & Rogues of The Iowa League: The Biographical Companion to Fort Dodge and the Bawling, Brawling, Hard-Balling Iowa League

Meet the lost spirits of the mythical age of baseball.During the summers of 1904-1906, a blossoming midwest city fielded a ballclub in the newly christened Iowa League. Over the course of those taut seasons, fifty-seven men wore the uniform bearing the name of Fort Dodge.A hundred twenty-five years later, none of these players has ever received more than a cursory glance in histories of the game. Now, every one of them has been caringly researched, resuscitated and celebrated. Whether a single day or twenty years, all of their stories unfold, from the woeful to the wonderful, as these devoted baseball pioneers—and an additional thirteen of their precursors—are finally given their due.Oldtime ballplayers used to say it all the time: “In my day, we played for the love of the game.. We would have played for free.” Maybe, just maybe, men like that really did take the field in a long-forgotten era. Maybe these were those very men of myth, the men of Fort Dodge and The Iowa League.Complete the story with Volume 1:Fort Dodge and the Bawling, Brawling, Hard-Balling Iowa League Read more