Baseball in the Garden of Eden: Baseball in the Garden of Eden

by John Thorn

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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright. But did baseball even have a father-or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0743294033

ISBN13:9780743294034

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Length:365 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Baseball History Non-Fiction Baseball Historical Study & Educational Resources Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social History Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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