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Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball (Keystone Book)

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Gateway To The Majors: Williamsport And Minor League Baseball weaves engaging social history and a collective biography of professional minor league baseball as it has existed in Williamsport, Pennsylvania from the beginnings of baseball in the 19th century down to the present day. James P. Quigle Jr. (Head of Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Paterno Library, Penn State University) and Louis E. Hunsinger Jr. (Williamsport local baseball historian and journalist for the Williamsport Sun-Gazette) draw upon the local Williamsport newspapers, extensive oral histories of former players, baseball administrators, boosters, and fans, rare photograph collections, and primary source material from the Baseball Hall of Fame Library and Archives, to reconstruct an accurate history of Williamsport professional baseball history and services to the sport as a training and proving ground for the Major Leagues. Gateway To The Majors is strongly recommended, informative, and entertaining reading for all dedicated baseball enthusiasts!

Quigel and Hunsinger do an admirable job of telling the story of baseball in Williamsport. I can't fault them for the choppiness of the prose. Poor editing.