Baseball As It Was delves into the sport in the fascinating dozen years following World War II, a period when baseball ruled as the national pastime and the names of the game’s principal stars were known even by those who weren’t diehard fans. It was a time of transition for Major League Baseball, which integrated and for the first time in a half a century a team moved from one city to another. But it remained a time before free agency and players won the right to bargain collectively, and teams were painstakingly assembled and built into championship clubs. Baseball As It Was focuses on the Cleveland Indians and the Boston/Milwaukee Braves between 1946-1957. Portraits and stories abound of the owners, general managers, field managers, and especially the great players, including Bob Feller, Larry Doby, Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn, and Henry Aaron among many others. Baseball As It Was is the story of dramatic pennant races, late season collapses, epic performances, and even an insurrection by players on the 1949 Boston Braves.