Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Team Histories: American League - Volume 1 (Baseball and American Society Series) - Hardcover

This encyclopaedia offers histories of each baseball team in the American League from 1903 to 1990. It includes bibliographies and statistical tables and provides profiles of important players, - Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Joe DiMaggio, Grover Cleveland Alexander and Jimmie Foxx. This book covers such teams as the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, the Kansas City Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays, and examines the game of baseball from the fan's point of view. The text also tells the story of ball-parks, like Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Tiger Stadium.