SOB: Southwestern Outlaw Baseball

About the Book

"You've certainly heard of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, "Shoeless Joe" and the other "outlaws," but do their stories end in a Windy City courtroom? When banished from baseball, an "outlaw" had two options: hang up the cleats, or find an outlaw league roster spot. SOUTHWESTERN OUTLAW BASEBALL is a meandering enumeration of baseball's westward expansion with some skillfully-placed geographical and historical tidbits, concluding with the collapse of the outlaw Copper League in 1927. From "Bean Town" to Bisbee and points in between, SOUTHWESTERN OUTLAW BASEBALL paints a poetic picture of some disgraced athletes who weren't quite ready to put their flannels in mothballs."

About the Author

Chuck Pederson lives in Colorado with his wife, Lupe, and son, Tori. Pederson has worked primarily in the fields of education/special education and recreation. He has coached multiple high school and middle school sports as a head coach and has served as a basketball clinician in the Western United States. Pederson previously owned a celebrity promotions business, hosting numerous personalities in varying fields. He is adept in the study of vintage autographs and chirography, and has been quoted and interviewed for numerous periodicals.