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| Vintage Base Ball`s Enduring Legacy |
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| By Jack Pelikan |
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| ISBN: 979-8-9852820-7-8
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| Price: $21.95 |
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| This book celebrates one of America`s few longstanding and fully intact traditions. Beginning with its humble,
early-19th century origins, it chronicles the game`s history including its meteoric rise as the national
pastime, subsequent commercialization, scandal and adaptation that has led to the nationwide revival of the
19th century game. The book discusses today`s proud yet unheralded community of vintage ballists (players),
who nobly carry on the game of their ancestors. Inside its pages are a compendium of historical research
balanced by interviews with today`s vintage clubs including St. Louis` Lafayette Square Cyclone, Upstate New
York`s Mountain Athletic Club, Columbus` Ohio Village Muffins and Lady Diamonds, Arizona`s Fort Verde
Excelsiors, Akron`s Black Stockings and Washington State`s Whatcom Aces. Vintage Base Ball`s Enduring
Legacy also offers dozens of photographs, rules, a lexicon, and is a must read for historians, nostalgists
and fans alike.
"Here is a real corker and a fitting tribute to the thriving vintage base ball community!" -- Peter Morris,
baseball books author |
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