Title: How to play baseball
Description: Connie Mack managed the championship team of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1902. There are chapters covering each position, and some for specific skills (i.e. base sliding). There is a history of baseball, from its evolution from the English game of rounders in the 1830s, through the first national association of players in 1858, and the beginning of fully professional baseball in 1868. Contains portraits of a number of stars from the late 19th to the beginning of the 20th century.
Subjects: Baseball