Baseball
Subtitle: A History of America's Game (Illinois History of Sports Series)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9780252017377
Subjects: Baseball; Baseball - General; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation; History; United States; Sports
First sentence: In 1858, three years before the first shots were fired in the nation's terrible civil war, baseball excitement in the New York City area mounted to a fever pitch.