Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century

by Lyle Spatz, Bill Nowlin, Jerry Casway, et al.

A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years, starting with a game in 1833. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War (immortalized in a famous lithograph), to the first intercollegiate game (Amherst versus Williams), to the first professional no-hitter, the games in this volume span 1833-1900 and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933599421
• ISBN13: 9781933599427
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"