The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club
Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball
Anonymous author Noah Brooks author Trey Strecker editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:12th May '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The Great Match (1877) and Our Base Ball Club (1884) 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.
“One of the best but least-heralded developments in the recent history of baseball literature was the inauguration of the McFarland Historical Baseball Library in 2003”—I>Spitball; “invaluable McFarland Historical Baseball Library series”—Edward Achorn, The Providence Journal; “readers...might be drawn in by the baseball...but they should stay for the glimpses of how our modern sport culture developed in the late nineteenth century.... [T]hree cheers and a tiger for all involved in the book’s production.”—Scott Peterson, Sport Literature Association; “three cheers”—SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter.
ISBN: 9780786444069
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
Weight: 376g
308 pages