The Tour to End All Tours

"Fans seeking to capture the flavour of big league baseball as staged in 1913 - just before two wars combined to transform the game - will delight in Mr. Elfers' recounting of the World Tour of the Giants and White Sox." David Q. Voigt, author of Baseball: An Illustrated History "Jim Elfers has succeeded in recreating, with copious and vivid historical detail, the forgotten story of a unique event in American sports history. He paints a dramatic, funny, and ultimately moving panorama of some of baseball's greatest characters as they introduce America's pastime to a global audience. A must for all baseball history fans." Kate Buford, author of Burt Lancaster: An American Life "A ripping good read, the clever combination of meticulous research and old-fashioned storytelling. Like a skilled archaeologist, James Elfers has unearthed the long-forgotten records of this bizarre, audacious round-the-world tour that promoted American baseball on the eve of the Great War." David Hurst Thomas, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History "It was baseball's greatest odyssey?a global excursion mounted by the Giants and White Sox on the eve of the outbreak of World War I... The off-field hijinks, culture clashes and even a near-shipwreck are all part of this long-forgotten yet compelling chapter of baseball lore." David Plaut's "Spring Book Guide" in the March 19/25, 2003 issue of USA Sports Weekly (formerly Baseball Weekly)