But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
by Peter Morris
2021-01-05 08:54:39
But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
by Peter Morris
2021-01-05 08:54:39
The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But D...
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The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn''t We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball''s origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball''s earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that really happened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.
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