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A good idea has many fathers; baseball is such an idea, and an astonishing number of these pioneers came home at last to Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Tom Gilbert's Playing First pays them tribute, not only as ball players but as men in full.
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About the Author:
Thomas W. Gilbert writes on baseball, food, travel and politics. He is the author of Roberto Clemente, Baseball and the Color Line, and several other books on baseball history. From his Greenpoint, Brooklyn stoop he can throw a baseball to the former site of the Manor House tavern, where members of the Eckford Baseball Club enjoyed a post game drink or two in the 1850s.
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- PublisherThe Green-Wood Cemetery
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0966343549
- ISBN 13 9780966343540
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages167
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