Uncertainty 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
In which the mystery is unraveled
Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in preCivil 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. "History of battingball games" by Per Maigaard
Appendix 7. Nine surviving descriptions of baseball-like games written and published before 1845.
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Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game by David Block. ISBN 9780803213395. Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
