How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed - Paperback
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins. "Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat."--Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal
Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were...Thomas W. Gilbert is the author of many baseball books, including Baseball and the Color Line, Roberto Clemente and Playing First. From his Greenpoint, Brooklyn stoop he can throw a baseball to the former site of the Manor House tavern, where members of the Eckford Baseball Club enjoyed a post game drink or two in the 1850s.
Thorn, John: -John Thorn is the Official Baseball...
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