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Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback) Loot Price: R482
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback): John Thorn

Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback)

John Thorn

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Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" ("The Plain Dealer," Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" ("Philadelphia Daily News") history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the falsehoods that have accrued around baseball's origins. This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror.
"Baseball in the Garden of Eden" draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game. From a religious society's plot to anoint Abner Doubleday as baseball's progenitor to a set of scoundrels and scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2012
First published: March 2012
Authors: John Thorn
Dimensions: 211 x 137 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9404-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Baseball
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
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LSN: 0-7432-9404-1
Barcode: 9780743294041

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