Baseball before We Knew It
Subtitle: A Search for the Roots of the Game
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780803213395
Subjects: History; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Baseball
First sentence: The age-old debate over baseball's ancestry has always been long on bluster and short on facts.
Description: Baseball, Block convincingly argues, was not a product of rounders, and its essential form had already been established by the late 18th century. Where, then, did baseball come from? In search of an answer, Block, a retired systems analyst and an antiquarian book collector, has attacked baseball's literary record with methodical zeal. The result is a joyfully discursive romp through the history of ball sports and a compelling new theory of the game's origins.