Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game / David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block, David, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--History.

Baseball.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]

Contents:

Uncertainty as to the paternity

Rounders schmounders

Abner and Albert, the missing link

Was Abner Graves telling the truth?

Rules of baseball : the prequel

How slick were the Knicks?

In the beginning

Stools, clubs, stobs, and jugs

Traps and cats

It's starting to look familiar

In which the mystery is unraveled

Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in preCivil War literature

Appendix 1. Constitutions and by-laws

Appendix 2. Some comments on sporting journals of the 1850s

Appendix 3. "A place leavel enough to play ball" by Thomas L. Altherr

Appendix 4. The letters of Abner Graves

Appendix 5. Dr. Adam E. Ford's letter to Sporting life

Appendix 6. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard

Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-324) and index.

ISBN:

0803213395

OCLC:

56014560