America's National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball With Personal Reminiscences of I [Hardcover]

Albert G. Spalding (Author)

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Publication Date: May 1, 1991

Baseball and America grew up together. No other history of the game so captures the character that made it the national pastime as recounted by the original Mister Baseball Albert Goodwill Spalding. In this all-new collectors' edition of his 1911 baseball classic Spalding takes you back to the game's roots how the game began and grew the first padded glove the story of the curve umpires the birth of the leagues and Casey at the bat

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Product Details

Hardcover: 389 pages
Publisher: Halo Books; Rev Sub edition (May 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0962287423
ISBN-13: 978-0962287428
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Vain & Romantic, March 20, 2005

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This review is from: America's National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball With Personal Reminiscences of I (Hardcover)

This book is a good read. Yes the book has plenty of self congraduations by Albert Spalding. But this was a great athlete who took himself off the field to become a richman in selling sporting goods and to lesser extent in the Chicago White Stockings (later to become known as the Chicago Cubs). Purely slanted to the owners point of view in collective bargaining and the need to keep players honest and the game clean. He believed that the owners kept baseball profitable and enjoyable for the fan. This book tells baseball from the perspective of 1860 to 1910, with no disadvantage of the knowledge of Babe Ruth, black sox scandal, or the million dollar ballplayer. This book will take you back to an earlier time.

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