I have written two research articles on early baseball in the Dakotas for the SABR Baseball Research Journal.
Many Exciting Chases After the Ball: Nineteenth Century Base Ball in Bismarck, Dakota Territory was published in the Spring, 2014 issue and can be found here. Considerable Excitement and Heavy Betting: Origins of Base Ball in the Dakota Territory, published in the Spring, 2020 issue, documents early baseball in South Dakota and can be read here. |
Sunday Afternoons on the Prairie is the story of baseball in North Dakota from its first origins in the 1870s to around 1900. The book, self-published, can be purchased for $15 at Amazon or privately from the author.
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Hired Batteries, also self-published, tells the story of the time (1920s and 1930s) when small towns in North Dakota paid salaries to outside players, many of them Major Leaguers or stars from the Negro Leagues.
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Lots More Fun That Way covers the time from the end of WWII to the 1970s when nearly every small town in North Dakota fielded an amateur team. The book is enhanced by interviews with many players of the era.
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