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

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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.