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Early innings : a documentary history of baseball, 1825-1908

This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball's first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources- including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides- Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908)

Print Book, English, [1997], ©1995
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, [1997], ©1995