Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game /
| Основен автор: | Block, David, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
℗♭2005.
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Baseball before we knew it. |
Съдържание:
- 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.