Baseball in the Garden of Eden: Baseball in the Garden of Eden

by John Thorn

Book Overview

Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright. But did baseball even have a father-or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743294033
• ISBN13: 9780743294034
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"