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Baseball before We Knew It : A Search for the Roots of the Game / David Block ; foreword by Tim Wiles ; with a new foreword by John Thorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Block, David, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--History.
- Baseball.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 pages).
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2025.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, the twentieth anniversary edition of Baseball before We Knew It is a unique and invaluable resource-a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America's game"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Uncertainty as to the paternity
- Rounders, schmounders
- Abner and Albert, the missing link by Philip Block
- 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
- Baseball before we knew it.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496242716
- 1496242718
- 9781496242709
- 149624270X
- OCLC:
- 1513586516
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