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Baseball before We Knew It - A Search for the Roots of the Game (Paperback)
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Baseball before We Knew It - A Search for the Roots of the Game (Paperback)
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Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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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 short supply—until now, when
Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of
baseball’s origins into play. David Block looks into the early
history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its
beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another,
debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the
English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation
for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner
Doubleday–Cooperstown story. Block’s book takes readers on an
exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to
the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling
discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the
1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance
of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on
the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back
hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed
history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that
contributed to baseball’s development. In its thoroughness and
reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball
sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource—a
comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it
was America’s game.  Purchase the audio edition.
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