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Frank WakefieldFellow bibliophiles,
Louisville baseball books...
The book you want exists!!! Louisville Diamonds, by Philip Von Borries. Not found cheap, but a good book, focuses on Louisville as a major league team, 1876 to 1899. A good read if you want to know about players like Chicken Wolf, who lead the league in hitting in 1890.
There is also Baseball in Louisville, Jewell. You can find it with ABE. I have not read it.
And Bob mentioned Fleming's fine book, The Unforgettable Season, but omitted Fleming's Dizziest Season. First one is about 1908, includes the Cubs - Giants race. Second is about the 1934 season, I love the Gashouse Gang!
Mike Sowell wrote 2 great baseball books, one about Ed Delahanty, it really helps someone understand the idea of the reserve clause and how the second major league formed, and eventually peacefully coexisted with the first. The other Sowell book is The Pitch that Killed, about the 1920 pennant race, and those two fated Kentuckians, Ray Chapman and Carl Mays. I think that but for that pitch, both men may well have made the Hall of Fame.