{"product_id":"9780803292444","title":"Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908","description":"\"Readers [get] a box seat at the game that became a national obsession.\"-London Review of Books. \"[Shows] just how compelling original documents can be when shaped into a narrative . . . that includes tales of attitudes, alliances, and deceits, as well as the development of performances, rules, and equipment.\"-Canadian Journal of the History of Sport. \"Ancient myths are shattered and new facts are uncovered.\"-USA Today Baseball Weekly. \"Fascinating collection.\"-Washington Post. \"Stories from the early days that no serious baseball fan would want to miss.\"-Chattanooga Times. This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball's first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources-including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides-Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908). Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  ","brand":"UNP - Nebraska Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007712379120,"sku":"9780803292444","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803292444_p0.jpg?v=1763729317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803292444","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}