Baseball by the Book

Episode 261: "Mrs. Morhard and the Boys"


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Before there was the Little League World Series, there was the Little World Series, played at Cleveland's League Park in 1941. Author Ruth Hanford Morhard joins us to talk about the remarkable story of a single mother who pioneered youth baseball in the years before World War II.

Click here to see "Bringing Up Baseball," the movie mentioned in the episode.

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