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"Great look back at sports history"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 20, 2003

At the beginning of the previous century baseball had two competing business leagues. In 1903 a deal was reached to hold a championship between the winners of the two leagues. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Americans played the first post-season championship. Several years later this event Read more...

"The Birth of Basesball As An American Ritual"
Reviewed by Norman Goldman
Courtesy Bookpleasures
Posted July 7, 2003

The year was 1903 when the first World Series was played between the Boston Americans of the newly formed American League and the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. As historian Louis P. Mazur, author of Autumn Glory- Baseball's First World Series,states, "the story of the first World Series is the story Read more...