Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age

By Harvey Frommer

Book Overview

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589792548
• ISBN13: 9781589792548
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"