I learned a little bit about baseball history from reading the Mickey Rawlings mystery series written by Troy Soos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Soos. Mostly the information I learn from these series was about individual old time players, or something about their ballparks.
But a really interesting bit I learned had to do with the baseball clubs and teams. As he explained it, baseball clubs would be formed in communities. These clubs were generally membered by business men and other upper class individuals in the communities. The clubs were social clubs, much like a country club today associated with a gold course. The clubs would field and own baseball teams, and as often as not, the baseball players were not members of the club, but paid to play on the baseball team. Which would explain to me why the baseball locker room is called a clubhouse!
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