{"product_id":"2940150187405","title":"The National Pastime: Premiere Issue Digital Re-Issue","description":"Back in 1982, the Society for American Baseball Research was still young, barely a decade past its founding, and had grown to some 1600 members. One of their number, a \"defrocked English Lit guy poking around in journalism,\" suggested to the board of directors that SABR, and the world, might benefit from a publication along the lines of American Heritage, only about baseball. Before long that member, John Thorn, found himself at the helm of the newly christened periodical, The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History. The very first issue included names we think of today as luminaries in the field of baseball history and analysis: Harold Seymour, Lawrence S. Ritter, Pete Palmer, David Voigt, Bob Broeg, and more. Over the years the significance of that flagship issue has only grown, while the inventory has dwindled. SABR is pleased to present a replica edition here, with the addition of a new preface by John Thorn, now the official historian of Major League Baseball.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis issue includes: \u003cbr\u003eNate Colbert's Unknown RBI Record by Bob Carroll \u003cbr\u003eNineteenth-Century Baseball Deserves Equal Time by Art Ahrens \u003cbr\u003eDandy at Third: Ray Dandridge by John B. Holway\u003cbr\u003eHow Fast Was Cool Papa Bell? by Jim Bankes \u003cbr\u003eThe Field of Play by David Sanders \u003cbr\u003eLadies and Gentlemen, Presenting Marty McHale by Lawrence S. Ritter\u003cbr\u003eRemembrance of Summers Past by Bob Broeg \u003cbr\u003eThe Merkle Blunder: A Kaleidoscopic View by G. H. Fleming\u003cbr\u003eA Tale of Two Sluggers: Roger Maris and Hack Wilson, by Don Nelson \u003cbr\u003eBaseball's Misbegottens: Expansion Era Managers by David Voigt\u003cbr\u003eThe Early Years: A Gallery by Mark Rucker and Lew Lipset\u003cbr\u003eThe Egyptian and the Greyhounds by Lew Lipset \u003cbr\u003eAll the Record Books Are Wrong by Frank J. Williams\u003cbr\u003eGoose Goslin's Induction Day by Lawrence S. Ritter \u003cbr\u003eThe Great New York Team of 1927—and It Wasn't the Yankees by Fred Stein\u003cbr\u003eModern Times: A Portfolio by Stuart Leeds\u003cbr\u003eBooks Before Baseball: A Personal History by Harold Seymour, Ph.D. \u003cbr\u003eBallparks: A Quiz by Bob Bluthardt \u003cbr\u003eRuns and Wins by Pete Palmer \u003cbr\u003eBaltimore, the Eastern Shore, and More by Al Kermisch\u003cbr\u003eDavid and Goliath: Figures by Ted DiTullio \u003cbr\u003eDouble Joe Dwyer: A Life in the Bushes by Gerald Tomlinson","brand":"Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179689591024,"sku":"2940150187405","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150187405_p0.jpg?v=1763739960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150187405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}