Red Stockings and Out-Of-Towners Sports in Utah Book

	Editor's Introduction	vii
1.	The Best in the West? Corinne: Utah's First Baseball Champions	1
2.	Deserets, Red Stockings, and Out-of-Towners: Baseball Comes of Age in Salt Lake City, 1877-79	33
3.	Coming Home: Community Baseball in Cache Valley	57
4.	The Salt Lake Seagulls Professional Football Team	76
5.	A Visit to the Champ's House	94
6.	The Rise of Tex Rickard as a Fight Promoter	99
7.	Tennis in Utah: The First Fifty Years, 1885-1935	110
8.	Bicycle Racing and the Salt Palace: Two Letters	129
9.	Utah's Gamble with Pari-mutuel Betting in the Early Twentieth Century	140
10.	"These Bloomin' Salt Beds": Racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats	161
11.	It's All Downhill from Here: The Rise and Fall of Becker Hill, 1929-1933	179
12.	Winter Fun in Northern Utah Valley: A Pleasant Grove Example	199
13.	A Winter Acquaintance with Timpanogos	213
14.	Joe the Fish Lake Guide	222
	Index	231
	Contributors	247
	Illustrations
	Downtown Corinne, 1875	2
	Salt Lake Red Stockings, 1879	34
	Cornish Baseball Team, 1949	58
	Salt Lake Seagulls, 1946	78
	Jack Dempsey and Ira Dern	96
	William D. Rishel and "Pathfinder"	100
	Woman playing tennis, ca. 1900	112
	Bicycle race track at old Salt Palace	130
	Advertisement for horse-race betting	142
	Donald Campbell's race car	162
	Ski-jumping champion Alf Engen	180
	Horse-drawn sleighs, Pleasant Grove	200
	Dean Brimhall on Mt. Timpanogos	214
	Joe Nielson at Fish Lake	224