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| Vintage Base Ball`s Enduring Legacy |
| By Jack Pelikan |
| 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
Podcast with author Jack Pelikan
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/04-11-rotb-jack-pelikan-author-of-vintage-baseballs/id1492781741?
i=1000615793175 |
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| Reviewed Appeared In: Interesting and fun read |
| Reviewed By: Ryan |
| Text Of Review: If you love history in general, but are also a fan of baseball, you will love this book just as I did as I found the combination of material intriguing. It`s not just a history book, and it`s not just documenting a league of players embracing an alt rules version of baseball. Rather I`ve found it to be a fun read as it brings those various elements together and enlightened me on the lesser known origins of baseball and how it grew into the nation`s pastime, as well learn about a growing faction of fans of the sport who embrace and practice living history and have fun playing the game while honoring its roots and early rules. |
| Date Reviewed: May 2023 |
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