Baseball Before We Knew It

Baseball Before We Knew It

A Search for the Roots of the Game

by David Block

381 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780803204775
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It may be Americas game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supplyuntil now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseballs 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 allthe Abner DoubledayCooperstown story.

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