Baseball & The Little Pretty Pocket Book
Today's episode is about a piece of baseball history, very early baseball history. It's about an 18th-century children's book, about a nationalistic effort to claim ownership over baseball, and about a mining engineer's nostalgic memories of the game's early days. It's about Albert Spalding, the Spalding of so much sports equipment, Abner Graves, the mining engineer in question, and the Civil War general, Abner Doubleday. It's about John Newbery, the man for whom the Newbery Medal for American children's literature is named.
Sources:
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A Little Pretty Pocket Book. Printed in Worcester by Isaiah Thomas.
* Block, David. Baseball Before we Knew it: A Search for the Roots of the Game. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
* Block, David. Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
* Martin, Brian. Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story. McFarland, 2013.
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