Baseball in Florida

by Kevin M. McCarthy

The history of Florida baseball encompasses greats, as well as outstanding college ball, the Negro Leagues, women's teams, and the minor leagues. You'll also read about baseball camps, old-timers' leagues, and even movies and novels about baseball.

262 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

About the author

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Florida (1969-2005).

Reviews

[VALERIE Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book grew on me-first of all, it was published in '96, but by a third of the way in, I was really enjoying McCarthy's summary of the growth of baseball since the Civil War. He touched on all the relevant topics-youth sports, high school and junior college and community college baseball, university play, Florida legends, women in the sport, race relations, spring training (versus the local minor leagues), umpire training, senior league, announcers (shout out to the NPR Red Barber moments, Thanks for that memory), the strikes, baseball in the movies, development of the major league teams in Florida. I felt so complete in my introduction that I really wanted to read about the last 30 years. McCarthy said the book was a by-product of a class he taught at the University of Gainesville. So glad I picked up the book. Thank you!