Let’s Go Read: How Baseball Happened

Nov 16 2020 by Let's Go Tribe

 

Thomas Gilbert’s look at early baseball’s origins is well worth any history fan’s time

How did baseball, as we know it, come to be? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one that even someone like myself — who enjoys baseball and history and baseball history — can easily overlook. For me, even after the claim that Abner Doubleday invented baseball was easily tossed aside as fiction, the question lingered but mostly went unexamined. Baseball is our national pastime and it...

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