Baseball was wildly popular in the towns that sprang up in the gold rush days at the beginning of the last century. In the land of the midnight sun, baseball was played at night because in the north land the night is light. Games could and would be played at midnight. All along the path of the gold strikes from Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Whitehorse, Dawson City to Fairbanks, the game was played as hard and was followed as closely as any where in the world. Thousands watched the games. big money was wagered, players from across the country were recruited to play, and scandals were uncovered. All the elements came together for this uniquely northern style baseball that existed for nearly twenty years until the beginning of World War 1. The game that was played by the players of that time are longer alive today, but the game they played is well documented by the newspapers of the day.

Along with photographs of the times, they describe a unique fascination with the game in a story that has never told before. Not even the Hall Fame in Cooperstown, NY has heard of the games played in the "Golden Days of Baseball ".