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Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Harold Seymour
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1960-12-31 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: John Thorn
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-20 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from
Baseball Before We Knew It
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: David Block
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in
Base Ball Founders
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Peter Morris
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-15 - Publisher: McFarland

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This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 18
Playing for Keeps
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Warren Jay Goldstein
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-26 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class