Baseball, 3rd Ed.
Subtitle: A History of America's Game (Illinois History of Sports)
Edition: 3rd Edition edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 9, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252075506
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Baseball; History; United States
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.