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An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
Ivan R. Dee
April 2008
On Sale: March 25, 2008
304 pages ISBN: 1566637481 EAN: 9781566637480 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink
baseball's origins. Weaving together long-forgotten
documents, Peter Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way
of life. His story begins with a generation of
mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the
countryside to the cities and brought a delightfully
informal game with them. The members of groundbreaking clubs
like the Knickerbockers of New York are rescued from the
dusty pages of history books and emerge as real men. We
share their exultant pride as baseball spreads and earns its
status as the national pastime-and we also share their deep
dismay as their game is transformed by professionalism and
other growing pains.
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