"This book traces Milwaukee's baseball history from the game's first appearance in the city in 1859 to the Brewers' last season in 1952.

It covers Rufus King, the man who brought baseball to Milwaukee, Milwaukee's status as the largest minor league market in the Northwestern League and Western Association, legendary manager Connie Mack, southpaw Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame player Hugh Duffy, widowed owner Agnes Malloy Havenor (who chose veteran third baseman Harry Clark to lead the Brewers to their first two American Association pennants in 1913 and 1914),

Colourful owner Otto Borchert, the Brewers' pennant-winning 1936 season under manager Al Sothoron, owner Bill Veeck's sideshows, managers Casey Stengel, "Jolly Cholly" Grimm, and Nick "Tomato Face" Cullop, and the last years of minor league baseball before the arrival of the Braves."--Jacket.