01921cam a2200325Ka 4500 53791 20230410132829.0 060707s2005 nbuab b s001 0 eng (OCoLC)ocm70261798 NOG NOG BAKER YDXCP BTCTA 0803262558 (pbk.) 9780803262553 (pbk.) YDXCP 2373002 (OCoLC)70261798 GRAL 1erAPT1erB651b 2005 Block, David, 1944- Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game / David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles. [Lincoln, NE] : Bison Books, 2005 xxv, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Baseball History. Baker & Taylor BKTY 16.95 12.71 0803262558 0006648788 active YBP Library Services YANK 2373002 Baker and Taylor BTCP BK0006648788 lcc C0 DRFGD csexposito 88525 88525 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2023-04-10 0 B651b 2005 00000055065 2018-11-17 00:00:00 1 2018-11-17 bk