Synopsis

It was a decade of upheaval—in China, in Central America, at Kitty Hawk, within Henry Ford’s factory walls, and on America's baseball diamonds. In 1894, a sportswriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson assumed leadership of a financially precarious minor league, the Western League, transforming it into a thriving enterprise. By 1900, he rebranded it as the American League and began openly contemplating a challenge to the National League’s dominance over major city baseball. The shift proved rem