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It's hard to imagine a wilder pair of brothers than Alfred and George Lawson. Best known as early promoters of professional baseball, they were intense rivals whose shared narcissism led them from one grand scheme to another, both in and away from the game, generating headlines seemingly as they went. Alfred had a long career as a player, manager, and minor league organizer before gaining notoriety as a utopian novelist, philosopher, economic reformer, cult leader, and early aviation promoter. George was a soldier, vaudeville troupe manager, performing hypnotist, medical quack, evangelist, and anti - KKK crusader who sought to break baseball's color line by founding integrated leagues.

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Jerry Kuntz is a baseball historian whose articles on the Lawson Brothers have been published in Base Ball, A Journal of the Early Years and Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game.

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