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Author:

Block, David, 1944-

Title:

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

Format:

[electronic resource] :

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

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

Reproduction Info:

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

Subject:

Baseball--History.

Other Authors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

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 -- 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 [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. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.

ISBN:

9780803204775 (electronic bk.)
0803204779 (electronic bk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60841156

Locations:

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