A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field

by Peter Morris

Book Overview

As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins. Claims of being first with any element of the game are disputed with fervor and passion. When the octogenarian Fred Goldsmith died in 1939, a headline proclaimed, 'Goldsmith Dies Insisting He Invented Curve Ball'; Fred Goldsmith understood the secret of immortality. Yet while countless thousands of words have been spilled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636779
• ISBN13: 9781566636773
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"