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Block, David, 1944-
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Baseball -- History.
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Baseball before we k...
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Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game / David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.
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Block, David, 1944-
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.
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Baseball -- History.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016099.html
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0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper) :
Description:
xxv, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
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