Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan

by Peter Morris

Book Overview

Baseball seems tailor-made for the historian, yet even today, after almost a century and a half of organized play, baseball's origins remain unclear. Most accounts focus on Eastern teams and the advent of professionals, but how the game spread across a predominantly rural America to become our national pastime is a question still largely unresolved.

In this well-researched study of Michigan baseball from the 1830s to the 1870s, baseball scholar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068261
• ISBN13: 9780472068265
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Regional
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"