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050	1	4	_a1erAPT1erB651b 2005
100	1		_aBlock, David, _d1944-
245	1	0	_aBaseball before we knew it : _ba search for the roots of the game / _cDavid Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.
260			_a[Lincoln, NE] : _bBison Books, _c2005
300			_axxv, 340 p. : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_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.
650		0	_aBaseball _xHistory.
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