Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game
Looks into the early history of the baseball game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. This title tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing an explanation for the notorious myth - the Abner Doubleday-Cooperstown story.
History
xxv, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780803262553, 0803262558
70261798
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
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 [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. Battingball games / by Per Maigaard
Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845