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020 a| 0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Block, David,d| 1944-=| ^A592776;

245 10 a| Baseball before we knew it :b| a search for the roots of the game /c| David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.;

300 a| xxv, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.;

505 0 a| 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 -- In which the mystery is unraveled -- Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in preCivil 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. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.;

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Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game / David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.

Author/creator	Block, David, 1944-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Description	xxv, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Baseball--History.

Contents	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 -- In which the mystery is unraveled -- Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in preCivil 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. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.
Local note	Little-351308-305131037584/
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.
LCCN	2004016099
ISBN	0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper)

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