Baseball's Union Association

Justin Mckinney is a baseball researcher and archivist living in Canada. He has written articles on 19th century and early 20th century baseball for the SABR Research Journal Base Ball: Journal of the Early Game, and the SABR Biography Project, and writes about deceased baseball players at medium.com/@BaseballObscura

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Al Pratt’s Association2. The Very Best of Ball Players3. Enter Henry V. Lucas4. The War Begins5. The Union Association Takes the Stage6. “The Finest! The Nearest! The Prettiest!”7. One Month in Altoona, Pennsylvania8. Going to Kansas City9. Independence Day in Washington10. Baltimore’s Battle11. “Bollicky” Bill and the “Wizard”12. The Hoss and the Playboy13. The Bell Tolls for the Keystones14. A Matter of Dollars and Cents15. The Windy City Blows Out of Town16. A Curse Falls Upon Delaware17. The Union Goes North … Western18. Cream City Chronicles19. The Vagabonds from Minnesota20. The Wild West and the Race for Third Place21. The Associations Face Off22. The Real Games Begin23. Almost Equivalent to Actual Dishonesty24. The Double Cross25. What Killed the Union Association?26. The Ghosts of the Union27. Henry Lucas Opts OutEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

“A remarkable compilation of research on the quirky, ill-fated league that is focused on contemporary primary sources to under-gird an analysis of how the Union Association formed, competed, and disbanded during its sole year of existence in 1884”—Charlie Bevis, author, Tim Keefe: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Pitcher and Player-Rights Advocate</>