The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club: Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball (McFarland Historical Baseball Library)
Language: English
Published by McFarland, 2010
Series: Book 2 of 3 - Baseball Lessons
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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The Great Match (1887) and Our Base Ball Club (1884) were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each was reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by Trey 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. In very good condition. I have more than 160 baseball novels and mysteries in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
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- Title
- The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club: Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball (McFarland Historical Baseball Library)
- Author
- Anonymous; Noah Brooks; Trey Strecker; Geri Strecker; Gary Mitchem; Mark Durr
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786444061
- ISBN 13
- 9780786444069
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: Baseball Lessons
- Seller catalogs
- BASEBALL NOVEL OR MYSTERY
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.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
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I sell baseball fiction and nonfiction out of my home. I have a large inventory of adult novels, mysteries, juvenile series, children's titles, pulps, comics, humor, anthologies, poetry and plays. I have other sports fiction as well, football, basketball, golf, as well as many boys juvenile sport series. In nonfiction I carry team histories, biographies, history of baseball, international baseball, faith and religion in sports, the Hall of Fame, the World Series and All-Star Games, economics and the law of sport. I also have a large collection of the Sporting News Guides, Record Books, Dope Books, etc, please ask if you are looking for a specific year. I am always looking to purchase additional inventory whether one book or an entire library.…
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