Home, Home Plate on the Range

What could an insane farmer, a Hall of Fame baseball player who reenacted George Washington's coin toss across the Potomac River, a Major League pitcher who once dressed as a woman to play baseball, a ball game between the Ku Klux Klan and an African American team, the first professional night baseball game, Jackie Robinson, Roger Clemens, Mike Torrez, Johnny Damon, Mike Pelfrey, Aaron Crow, and Mickey Mantle possibly have in common? The answer is baseball in Kansas. Read these stories and much more in Home, Home Plate on the Range: Historical Guide of Major League Players from Kansas and Baseball in the Sunflower State, the most comprehensive book ever published about the story of baseball in Kansas.