Synopses & Reviews
Kelly was one of the most colorful athletes in U.S. team sport and few people know much about him. More familiar may be the notion that baseball and the theater might have something in common. This, his definitive biography, shows how close those ties were in baseball's first professional decades. Kelly is a perfect fit because he performed on stageand had an amusing way of carrying himself on and off the field. Also detailed are baseball-related activities of actors and musicians mostclosely identified with the sport up to 1900.