The Sports Encyclopedia 
Subtitle: Baseball
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: March 1, 1987
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312006860
Subjects: Baseball - General; Sports & Recreation
First sentence: If H.G. Wells actually built his time machine and one could be transported back in time, the chances are that any similarity between the game of the twentieth century and the game as played through 1892, would simply be an illusion in the eye of the beholder.