Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan
"Peter Morris is able to demonstrate what is an essential truth: that Americans’ attachment to their national pastime is fundamentally and forever local. . . . The book is a marvel of scholarship and synthesis."—John Thorn, coeditor of Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball and author of Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame"Peter Morris has accomplished a major feat with Baseball Fever: by using one geographic area as a mirror, he reflects the early history of the game for the entire nation."—Paul Dickson, author of The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary and The Hidden Language of Baseball--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.