Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game

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Book Description
Block's book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball's development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource-a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America's game.

David Block is a long-time collector of early baseball books and memorabilia, and is a passionate, lifelong fan of the game and its history. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game,David Block,Tim Wiles,Bison Books,0803262558,Baseball - History,Sports,Sports & Recreation,Baseball,History of specific subjects

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