
How Baseball Happened
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You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn't. Perhaps you've read that baseball's color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope.
Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War.
In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars-all before the first professional league was formed in 1871.
Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
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Thomas W. Gilbert is the author of many baseball books, including Baseball and the Color Line , Roberto Clemente and Playing First . From his Greenpoint, Brooklyn stoop he can throw a baseball to the former site of the Manor House tavern, where members of the Eckford Baseball Club enjoyed a post game drink or two in the 1850s.
John Thorn is the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball and the author of numerous books including Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game and Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball .
Content
Introduction by John Thorn
Amateur Era Timeline
Chapter One: The Wrongness of Baseball History
Chapter Two: Wasps in the Attic
Chapter Three: Escape from the City
Chapter Four: What Makes a River
Chapter Five: It Happened in Brooklyn
Chapter Six: A Ballplayer's Tale
Chapter Seven: Philadelphia Stories
Chapter Eight: Amateur Hour
Chapter Nine: Traveling Team
Afterword
Appendix 1: Game Versus Sport
Appendix 2: What happened to . . .
Bibliography
Photo Credits, Notes
Index
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