David Block

Pastime Lost (eBook, ePUB)

The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long before baseball became America's national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played with a soft ball on a smaller playing field and, instead of a bat, the ball was typically struck by the palm of the hand. There is no doubt, however, that this simpler English version of baseball was the original form of the pastime and was the immediate forerunner of its better-known American offspring. Strictly a social game, English baseball was played for nearly two hundred years before fading away at the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite its longevity and its important role in baseball's evolution, however, today it has been completely forgotten. In Pastime Lost David Block unearths baseball's buried history and brings it back to life, illustrating how English baseball was embraced by all sectors of English society and exploring some of the personalities, such as Jane Austen and King George III, who played the game in their childhoods. While rigorously documenting his sources, Block also brings a light touch to his story, inviting us to follow him on some of the adventures that led to his most important discoveries. Purchase the audio edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496214140
• Artikelnr.: 56522773

Autorenporträt

David Block is a baseball historian and antiquarian. His book Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (Nebraska, 2005) was the recipient of the 2006 SABR Seymour Medal and the 2006 North American Society for Sport History Book Award, was named to the New York Times Reading List of sports books (2005), and was designated an Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 by the American Library Association.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Little Pretty Debut
2. The Sporting Prince
3. Two Weeks, Two Discoveries
4. Word Perfect
5. Wild Geese and Red Herrings
6. Ball, Bat, and Beyond
7. Austen’s Aura
8. Science and Letters
9. Ladies First
10. The Numbers Game
11. A Class Act
12. Literary Allusions
13. Glorified Rounders of Antiquity
14. Summertime Treat
15. People’s Pastime
16. Rules Don’t Apply
17. The Old Ba’ Game
18. Strange Diversions
19. The Third Baseball
20. Mottos Are Made to Be Broken
21. When Games Collide
22. Pastime Lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index