Mike “Mique” Fisher’s series of articles that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner , beginning on Sunday, January 27, 1924, and continuing through Monday, April 28, 1924–– with an unfulfilled promise of being continued, was never published in book form until now. Carlos Bauer added several sections, extensive notes, statistics, ballpark drawings and player photos to Mike Fisher's text. Fisher began as a fan in San Francisco in the 1860s; in the 1870s he began a semipro career in San Francisco; in the 1880s, he began a seven-year professional baseball career; and around the turn of the century, he became an owner of ball clubs in the California and Pacific Coast League. His 1904 Tacoma club, as he will explain, was one of the greatest clubs ever in the Coast League. Mike Fisher left the game after his ballplaying career ended in 1888. He first worked in the Southern Pacific machine shop, then went on to become a policeman in Sacramento. In 1902, business leaders in Sacramento encouraged him to take over management of the floundering Sacramento franchise in the California League. In 1903, he was one of the founders of the Pacific Coast League.