02053cam a2200337Ka 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230350023000640400034000870200022001210200025001430290019001680350020001870490009002070500024002161000025002402450116002652600040003813000039004215040051004605050855005116500023013669380071013899380040014609380041015009420008015419940014015499460015015639990017015789520120015955379120230410132829.0060707s2005    nbuab    b   s001 0 eng    a(OCoLC)ocm70261798  aNOGcNOGdBAKERdYDXCPdBTCTA  a0803262558 (pbk.)  a9780803262553 (pbk.)1 aYDXCPb2373002  a(OCoLC)70261798  aGRAL14a1erAPT1erB651b 20051 aBlock, David,d1944-10aBaseball before we knew it :ba search for the roots of the game /cDavid Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.  a[Lincoln, NE] :bBison Books,c2005  axxv, 340 p. :bill., map ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aUncertainty 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. 0aBaseballxHistory.  aBaker & TaylorbBKTYc16.95d12.71i0803262558n0006648788sactive  aYBP Library ServicesbYANKn2373002  aBaker and TaylorbBTCPnBK0006648788  2lcc  aC0bDRFGD  acsexposito  c88525d88525  00102lcc40708APTaBJBbBJBcAPTd2023-04-10l0oB651b 2005p00000055065r2018-11-17 00:00:00t1w2018-11-17ybk