How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball-how America's first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation

Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs-ordinary people-who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in ...