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Baseball Roots: The Fascinating Birth of America's Game and the Amazing Players that were its Champions

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The strength of the book is in the over 300 pages of player and team "biographies" with statistics and historic photos.Each is accompanied by a photograph, the players position, the date and place of his birth and death. It also includes team histories with league affiliation, active years and overall record. Baseball Roots can be read cover to cover or refrenced via a good index. Basically a reworking of the author's From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe : The Warwick Compendium to Early Baseball, but at a lower price. The introductory essays relate the story of the development and the evolution of the game in the nineteenth century and the very early twentieth century. Some of the information is presented with very little detail. The book also lacks a bibliography and end notes. Readers looking for good primary source material should see Dean Sullivan, Early Innings, A Documentary History of Baseball. I had a great time reading the biographies in Baseball Roots. Overall a good addition to any baseball history afficianados library and worth the price.