000304483 000__ 01811cam\a22002894a\45\0 000304483 001__ 304483 000304483 005__ 20210513112341.0 000304483 008__ 040713s2005\\\\nbuab\\\\b\\\s001\0\eng\\ 000304483 010__ $$a 2004016099 000304483 020__ $$a0803213395 (alk. paper) 000304483 02430 $$a9780803213395 000304483 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm56014560 000304483 035__ $$a304483 000304483 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dBUR$$dMBB$$dHAC$$dVP@$$dISE 000304483 042__ $$apcc 000304483 049__ $$aISEA 000304483 05000 $$aGV862.5$$b.B56 2005 000304483 08200 $$a796.357/09034$$222 000304483 1001_ $$aBlock, David,$$d1944- 000304483 24510 $$aBaseball before we knew it :$$ba search for the roots of the game /$$cDavid Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles. 000304483 260__ $$aLincoln :$$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$$cc2005. 000304483 300__ $$axxv, 340 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c23 cm. 000304483 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000304483 5050_ $$aUncertainty as to the paternity -- Rounders schmounders -- Abner and Albert, the missing link -- Was Abner Graves telling the truth? -- Rules of baseball : the prequel -- How slick were the Knicks? -- In the beginning -- Stools, clubs, stobs, and jugs -- Traps and cats -- It's starting to look familiar -- Baseball before we knew it -- Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in pre-Civil War literature -- Appendix 1. Constitutions and by-laws -- Appendix 2. Some comments on sporting journals of the 1850s -- Appendix 3. "A place leavel [sic] enough to play ball" / by Thomas L. Altherr -- Appendix 4. The letters of Abner Graves -- Appendix 5. Dr. Adam E. Ford's letter to Sporting life -- Appendix 6. Battingball games / by Per Maigaard -- Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845. 000304483 650_0 $$aBaseball$$xHistory. 000304483 85200 $$bgen$$hGV862.5$$i.B56$$i2005 000304483 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016099.html 000304483 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:304483$$pGLOBAL_SET 000304483 980__ $$aBIB 000304483 980__ $$aBOOK 000304483 994__ $$aC0$$bISE