The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by baseball scholars Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker, this volume, the tenth in the McFarland Historical Baseball Library, is for anyone with an interest in early baseball and its place in the nineteenth century popular imagination.
Language
English
Pages
308
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Company
Release
May 22, 2010
ISBN
0786444061
ISBN 13
9780786444069
The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club: Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball
The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by baseball scholars Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker, this volume, the tenth in the McFarland Historical Baseball Library, is for anyone with an interest in early baseball and its place in the nineteenth century popular imagination.