{"product_id":"9781566638494","title":"But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that really happened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dee, Ivan R. Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040735903984,"sku":"9781566638494","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566638494_p0.jpg?v=1763786678","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566638494","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}