Oh Brother, How They Played the Game

by Carlton Stowers

Overview Oh Brother, How They Played the Game : The Story of Texas Greatest All-Brothers Baseball Team English Series: Texas Heritage Ser. Volume: 9 ISBN: 1933337133 EAN: 9781933337135 Category: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General/Family & Relationships / Siblings/Biography & Autobiography / General/Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History Publisher: State House Press Release Date: 03/31/2007 Age Range: 9-UP Synopsis: In the middle of the Great Depression, nine brothers from a small town in the Texas Hill Country played a baseball game they would never forget-the All-Brothers Baseball Championship in Wichita, Kansas. The Deike Brothers from Hye, Texas, would take on the Stanczak Brothers from the Chicago suburb of Waukegan, Illinois, in a game staged as a promotion by a coffee company. Veteran Texas author Carlton Stowers relates the little-known true story of Texas greatest all-brothers baseball team, a story that includes former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who sometimes fil