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The true, unknown, and wonderfully entertaining story of baseball's origins in the 19th century, as revealed by the game's preeminent historian.

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"A rousing good story, a rich tapestry of charming rogues, hustlers, and gritty ballparks that brings to sparkling life the game of baseball as it ... More

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Chronicles the Irish and their impact on baseball, citing influential Irish figures on and off the diamond, exploring their many contributions and ... More

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The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from ... More

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America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In ... More

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In this lively chronicle of the 1888-1889 Spalding world baseball tour, Thomas Zeiler examines the roots of the post-1898 American empire by ... More

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Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888. Its popularity owed much to the ... More

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"Readers [get] a box seat at the game that became a national obsession".-London Review of Books. "[Shows] just how compelling original documents can ... More

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An important and forgotten chapter in sports and African American history. Here is the first in-depth account of the birth of black baseball and its ... More

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The Chicago area today hosts two of the most historic major league franchises and half a dozen minor or independent league teams. Baseball's roots ... More

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New major leagues have sprung up throughout the history of baseball, both long-term successes (the American and National leagues) and the transitory, ... More

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It was probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history. And it was a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book ... More

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The author of "Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy" presents an intriguing look at what baseball has meant to American life ... More

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In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention ... More

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In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and ... More

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Mike "King" Kelly was a hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game ... More

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The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades.

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How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime

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The first biography of one of the most adventurous and influential figures in baseball history.

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Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise simply from a desire to turn baseball into ... More

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Cap Anson, King Kelly, Wee Willie Keeler--three of the best hitters in baseballs infancy. But which of these three was the best? And who was the eras ... More

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Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach ... More

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Even before the 1889 baseball season began, battle lines had been drawn, revels this history of 19th-century baseball. In the National League, The ... More

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Voigt explores the historical origins of baseball from stick-and-ball games, through the popular players, significant rules changes, and seedy ... More

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This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary ... More

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