The Village Green; Or, Sports of Youth
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Chapbooks
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Chapbooks
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Author : Sidney Babcock
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Children's poetry
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Author : David Block
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803262553
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. ø 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.
Author : Robert William Henderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780838616772
An indispensable guide and checklist for sports historians and collectors of sports publications. It has attempted to include everything printed concerning sports by both American and foreign authors that was published in the United States or Canada prior to 1860.
Author : James Conway
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Abraham John Valpy
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Great Britain
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Author : George Paxton (Minister of the United Presbyterian Church in Kilmaurs.)
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1813
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Author : American Heritage Society
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Americana
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Author : John Baillie
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1857
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