Publisher's Synopsis
Every pastime has a beginning. Chock full of facts and folklore, legerdemain and legends, ROWDIES depicts professional baseball in its infancy. It is the story of Connie "Yank" Griffin, and out-of-work laborer who becomes a professional base ball player to feed his young family, and team manager G.E. Devlin, universally considered "The Greatest Man Ever to Grace the Diamond." Together and with the rest of their Nine, they take us on a journey through one season of late nineteenth century professional baseball - a world where beer sold by the quarter is drank by the gallon, where cheating ballplayers will do anything to win - or lose, and where an aging legend can ride the back of a desperate kid towards a final shot at glory in the twilight of his storied career. Fans of historical fiction and lovers of baseball alike will delight in this tale of balls ... and strikes.
