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008			120604s2005 |||| |||||||||| | eng c
020			_a0803213395 (cloth : alk. paper)
041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aBlock, David
245	1	0	_aBaseball before we knew it : _ba search for the roots of the game / _cDavid Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.
260			_aLincoln : _bUniversity of Nebraska Press, _c2005.
300			_axxv, 340 p. : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
505	0		_aUncertainty as to the paternity -- Rounders schmounders -- Abner and Albert, the missing link -- Was Abner Graves telling the truth? -- Rules of baseball : the prequel -- How slick were the Knicks? -- In the beginning -- Stools, clubs, stobs, and jugs -- Traps and cats -- It's starting to look familiar -- In which the mystery is unraveled -- Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in preCivil War literature -- Appendix 1. Constitutions and by-laws -- Appendix 2. Some comments on sporting journals of the 1850s -- Appendix 3. "A place leavel [sic] enough to play ball" by Thomas L. Altherr -- Appendix 4. The letters of Abner Graves -- Appendix 5. Dr. Adam E. Ford's letter to Sporting life -- Appendix 6. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.
650		0	_aBaseball _xHistory.
700	1		_aWiles, Tim
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