{"title":"J. B. Manheim","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-keystone-corner-thomas-edison-turns-two-paperback","title":"The Keystone Corner: Thomas Edison Turns Two - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Edison didn't invent baseball any more than Abner Doubleday did. But his interest in the game might hold the key to unlocking a surprising secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deadball Era was a time when pitchers threw hundreds of innings, home runs were rare, and the game was played spikes up, a time marked by the consolidation of Major League Baseball, initial moves toward its antitrust exemption, development of the Doubleday myth, and the arrival of The Bambino-all things that would change the game forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut baseball is always a reflection of the times in which it is played, and the Deadball Era was much more than a frame for the game. It was a time of seismic technological, social, and political change-an era of firsts. Powered flight. Large-scale assembly lines. The Panama Canal. The birth of American Empire. And so much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd just as baseball had its larger than life personalities-Mathewson, Cobb, Wagner, Ruth-so, too, did the larger world. Roosevelt. Ford. The Wright Brothers. Einstein. But one man of an earlier day stood out well into this new era, perhaps because he literally invented much of it. That man was a diehard baseball fan-Thomas Edison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFresh from his victory in \u003cem\u003eThe Federal Case\u003c\/em\u003e, young attorney Andy Dennum and his cartographer girlfriend, Keiley Barefoot, use Edison's love of baseball to uncover the secrets hidden in the estate of the inventor's last surviving offspring, \"Uncle Frank\" Culbertson. You won't believe what they find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104786419935,"sku":"9781934597965","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RLDET0ktU29781934597965.webp?v=1781111317"},{"product_id":"the-federal-case-paperback","title":"The Federal Case - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho really owns the National Pastime?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1914 the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs declared itself a \"major\" league and began pirating players from the established leagues. Ban Johnson, the most powerful man in Major League Baseball, led the fierce resistance to this move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1915 Federal League owners filed a lawsuit claiming that the American and National Leagues were restraining trade in violation of the nation's new antitrust laws. The litigation languished until an informal settlement ended the case-and the league's existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut was that the whole story?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA century later, young night-schooled lawyer Andy Dennum has landed a position with a prestigious law firm, only to find himself tasked with mucking out the firm's archive of presumedly dead files. There he stumbles across an old, and perhaps still viable, file containing a single document that might suggest otherwise. The firm shows no interest, and after several more months reviewing old cases, Andy is summarily fired to make room for the next night-school grunt to pick up the task.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Andy has other ideas. Assisted by his girlfriend, professional cartographer and amateur genealogist Keiley Barefoot, he follows a series of leads to a conclusion he never expected. And he finds himself in a courtroom facing his old nemesis, the senior partner who fired him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt stake? Not only the viability of Major League Baseball's business model, but Andy's future as a lawyer and even his sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all comes together in \u003cem\u003eThe Federal Case.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104838160607,"sku":"9798888191262","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fKUth1r87i9798888191262.webp?v=1781111420"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/j-b-manheim.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}