Baseball Before We Knew It

Informationen zum Autor David Block is a long-time collector of early baseball books and memorabilia, and is a passionate, lifelong fan of the game and its history. Klappentext Block's entertaining and well-written romp through the history of ball sports is now available in a Bison Books edition. Zusammenfassung Looks into the early history of the baseball game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. This title tackles one stubborn misconception after another! debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing an explanation for the notorious myth - the Abner Doubleday-Cooperstown story.

Klappentext

Block's entertaining and well-written romp through the history of ball sports is now available in a Bison Books edition.

Zusammenfassung
Looks into the early history of the baseball game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. This title tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing an explanation for the notorious myth - the Abner Doubleday-Cooperstown story.