Runs, Hits, and an Era: The Pacific Coast League, 1903-58

Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, for the Oakland Museum. Near Fine. (c.1994). First Edition. Softcover. [very slight curling to corners of front cover, otherwise as new, but with a brief (non-authorial) gift inscription on the half-title page]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Authoritative history of the Pacific Coast League, which for six decades "reigned supreme for West Coast baseball fans, launching the careers of future luminaries such as Ted Williams, Ernie Lombardi, Minnie Minoso, and Joe DiMaggio. Until the Dodgers and Giants moved west in 1958, the PCL was 'the only game in town' for fans from Seattle to San Diego." .