Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age

by Harvey Frommer

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In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was emerging as the preeminent forum for truly professional...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1630760064

ISBN13:9781630760069

Release Date:October 2016

Publisher:Lyons Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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