The great match
Subtitle: and, Our base ball club : two novels from the early days of base ball
By: by Anonymous and Noah Brooks ; volume editors, Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker
Contributors: Trowbridge, John, 1843-1923; Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells), 1840-1930
Series: The McFarland historical baseball library -- 10
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786444069
Description: "The Great Match (1887) and Our Base Ball Club (1884) were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by baseball scholars Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker, this volume, the tenth in the McFarland Historical Baseball Library"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: The novel The great match was originally published anonymously and misattributed to John Townsend Trowbridge (1843-1923). It was actually written by Mary Prudence Wells Smith (1840-1930).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Trey Strecker and Geralyn Strecker; title: The great match and other matches (1877) / by Anonymous; title: Our base ball club and how it won the championship (1884) / by Noah Brooks.