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Long before multi-million dollar contracts, player endorsements and corporate sponsored stadiums, baseball was played for the sheer love of the game. This is the story of Kansas baseball but it could be any fledgling prairie state where baseball was played along dusty roads for the local crowd.

Town Teams: Bigger than Baseball explores America’s Game at the turn of the twentieth century, when men would labor and sweat in the factories, oil fields and farms from sun-up to sundown, six days a week. But come Sunday, they clashed on the scorching hot baseball field for bragging rights, pride and a whole lot more.

This historical documentary reaches beyond the astonishing popularity of the game and examines the origins and importance of baseball. Town teams created local heroes, assimilated immigrants, unified society and even became a weapon in the battle between towns for economic power. Town teams baseball weaved its way into the very fabric of US culture, making Town Teams: Bigger than Baseball.