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Frank WakefieldMr. Fleming's book, The Unforgettable Season, is a great book, my impression was that he'd written it to convey what happened in that 1908 season.
As for Defford's book and the other 'new' book about that time, my feeling was they threw their books together to make some money. Nice fluffy books...
Charles Alexander wrote a great book about Mr. McGraw. It is insightful as to how baseball was the way it was at the turn of the century.
Mike Sowel's July 2, 1903, is about so much more than just the death of Ed Delahanty. It really explains the rivalry between the NL and the upstart AL, contract jumping, the National Agreement. A really good book to understand what was happening in baseball at the turn of the century.