Major League Baseball has been a part of Arizona for many decades as an area that hosts spring training, and in 1998, the Arizona Diamondbacks played their first game.
Baseball historian John Darrin Tenney explores the much deeper history of the game in Arizona, way before it was played in an air conditioned dome. We spoke with Tenney about his new book. It’s called "Baseball in Territorial Arizona: A History, 1863-1912."
