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COPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour. James E. Elfers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
James E. Elfers contributes significantly to popular culture with this readable, entertaining analysis of baseball at its early twentieth-century entrepreneurial best. Tightly focused, The Tour to End All Tours leaves no fact, detail, or personality unexamined. Its author, a library analyst at the University of Delaware, unfolds the distinctive story of how "the two most powerful men in baseball" (2), Charles A. Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox and John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, shepherded their respective big league teams around the world. This three-month world tour, an "odyssey of thirty thousand miles through thirteen nations"...
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