num_pages: 304
description: The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them.
language: English
title: But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
publisher: Ivan R. Dee