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02387cam a2200421Ia 4500 001 318E6E9A2B0911DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20150520012456 008 040713s2005 nbuab b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2004016099 020 $a 9780803213395 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BUR $d MBB $d HAC $d VP@ $d IG# $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d IWS $d SILO 050 00 $a GV862.5 $b .B56 2005 082 00 $a 796.357/09034 $2 22 100 1 $a Block, David, $d 1944- 245 1 $a Baseball before we knew it : $b a search for the roots of the game / $c David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles. 260 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c c2005. 300 $a xxv, 340 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 -- Baseball before we knew it -- Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in pre-Civil War literature -- Appendix 1. Constitutions and by-laws -- Appendix 2. Some comments on sporting journals of the 1850s -- Appendix 3. "A place leavel [sic] 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. Battingball games / by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845. 650 0 $a Baseball $x History. 941 $a 13 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215012613.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214053142.0 952 $l UPAX334 $d 20230104034938.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323023746.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119043724.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926084812.0 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20180623023705.0 952 $l NCPC953 $d 20180116015510.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160823024604.0 952 $l UWAX953 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=318E6E9A2B0911DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 994 $a 01 $b IWSInitiate Another SILO Locator Search