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Baseball in the Garden of Eden
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Authors: John Thorn
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1939, Baseball's Tipping Point
Language: en
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Baseball has never had a more important year than 1939, when events and people came together to reshape the game like never before. The author explains why that
Inventing Baseball
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Authors: Bill Felber
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A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years. From the "prisone