George Newbern
Author
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America's first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation
Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of
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