Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game

Winner of the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research
Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award
Named a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Named a 2025Choice Outstanding Academic Title

When Baseball before We Knew It was first published in 2005, it shattered many long-held assumptions about the pastime's origins. No, baseball was not original to America. No, baseball did not come from the English game rounders. Yes, of course, the Doubleday sto...