Before They Were Cardinals
Subtitle: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis (Sports and American Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780826214010
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Baseball; c 1800 to c 1900; Sports; Sports & Recreation; Missouri; Baseball - History; 19th century; History; Saint Louis
First sentence: If present-day baseball fans could travel by time machine back to May 6, 1875, to witness the St. Louis Brown Stockings play their first game against the Chicago White Stockings, they would see a sport that, while recognizable as baseball, differed substantially from the modern game in its rules and prevailing style of play.