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Pastime Lost
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: David Block
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It
Pastime Lost
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: David Block
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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"Long before baseball became America's national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It h
Lost in a Good Game
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Pete Etchells
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-04 - Publisher: Icon Books

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'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times 'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was spe
Creating the National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: G. Edward White
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in pa
Baseball Before We Knew It
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: David Block
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in