How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert and Thomas W. Gilbert

Book Overview

The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins. "Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat."--Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal

Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567927238
• ISBN13: 9781567927238
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"