Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age - Hardcover

...wonderful. Reading this book is a reminder of how little baseball-and the pleasure derived from it-has changed. * Publishers Weekly * Priceless. Something for everyone. The reader will have an even greater appreciation for our National Pastime. * Pinstripe Press *

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was emerging as the preeminent forum for truly professional baseball.