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Author:

Block, David, 1944-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxv, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Baseball--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.

ISBN:

9780803213395 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004016099

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

NCPC953 -- Buffalo Center Public Library (Buffalo Center)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)