In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this twentieth anniversary edition of Baseball before We Knew It is a unique and invaluable resource—a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America’s game.
In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this twentieth anniversary edition of Baseball before We Knew It is a unique and invaluable resource—a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America’s game. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Block is a baseball historian and antiquarian. He is the author of Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball (Nebraska, 2019). Tim Wiles is the former director of research for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and a coauthor of Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” John Thorn is the official historian of Major League Baseball and the author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Foreword to the New Edition by John Thorn Foreword by Tim Wiles Preface to the New Edition Preface Acknowledgments for the New Edition Acknowledgments Base, as in Baseball A Pocket(book)ful of Miracles 1. Uncertainty as to the Paternity 2. Rounders, Schmounders 3. Abner and Albert, the Missing Link by Philip Block Playing Ball at Camp Doubleday 4. Was Abner Graves Telling the Truth? 5. Rules of Baseball: The Prequel 6. How Slick Were the Knicks? 7. In the Beginning 8. Stools, Clubs, Stobs, and Jugs 9. Traps and Cats 10. It’s Starting to Look Familiar 11. 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 Enough to Play Ball”: Baseball and Baseball-type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic 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: Ten Surviving Descriptions of Baseball-like Games Written and Published before 1845 Notes Principal Sources Consulted Index
List of Illustrations Foreword to the New Edition by John Thorn Foreword by Tim Wiles Preface to the New Edition Preface Acknowledgments for the New Edition Acknowledgments Base, as in Baseball A Pocket(book)ful of Miracles 1. Uncertainty as to the Paternity 2. Rounders, Schmounders 3. Abner and Albert, the Missing Link by Philip Block Playing Ball at Camp Doubleday 4. Was Abner Graves Telling the Truth? 5. Rules of Baseball: The Prequel 6. How Slick Were the Knicks? 7. In the Beginning 8. Stools, Clubs, Stobs, and Jugs 9. Traps and Cats 10. It’s Starting to Look Familiar 11. 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 Enough to Play Ball”: Baseball and Baseball-type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic 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: Ten Surviving Descriptions of Baseball-like Games Written and Published before 1845 Notes Principal Sources Consulted Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
