The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

the scales against buying was the other owners: I recognized then that there was a lot of prejudice against me. I’d have had my life savings tied up in the club, and I realized that if I ever needed any help, I sure wouldn’t get it from my fellow owners. It would be closed ranks against me. Strangely enough, that was the first time anti-Semitism really affected me adversely in baseball.