Level Playing Fields:
How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseballby Peter Morris

“Peter Morris’s short but masterly Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball looks at the development of professional baseball and, indeed, at Americans’ changing image of their society, from a much-neglected angle, that of the material conditions of play. The careers of Tom and John Murphy were pivotal. . . .  This book is packed with insight and telling detail on both baseball and the American temper.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

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