Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9, Volume 9

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John Thorn
McFarland, Jul 1, 2016 - Sports & Recreation - 200 pages

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Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.
 

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Contents

EDITORS NOTE
Baseballs West Coast Postseason
Founding Father or Figurehead?
Baseballs Emergence
Major Leaguers
A Modest but Constructive Presence in Baseballs
The Making of Baseballs Magna Carta
Analysis of the Laws of Base Ball
Challenging Sunday Baseball in Old Chicago
A Brief Survey
Copyright

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About the author (2016)

John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

Bibliographic information

TitleBase Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9, Volume 9
EditorJohn Thorn
PublisherMcFarland, 2016
ISBN147662139X, 9781476621395
Length200 pages
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