Baseball for Everyone - Hardcover

Coleman, J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810945800 ISBN 13: 9780810945807

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003

This is a colourful tour of baseball's history, celebrated and illustrated in American folk art and collectables. From pick-up games played by children, Civil War soldiers, firemen and college students to the formation of the first professional leagues, this is a democratic look at the sport illustrated with early baseball cards, paintings, quilts, signs, carved bats and more. The great players are here, too, depicted by the fans who loved them.

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About the Author:

Janet Wyman Coleman is the author of Famous Bears & Friends: 100 Years of Teddy Bear Stories, Poems, Songs, and Heroics. She lives in Wayland, Massachusetts. Elizabeth V. Warren was the Curator of the American Folk Art Museum from 1984 to 1990, and has been the museum's Consulting Curator since 1991. She is the author of Abrams' The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, and curator of the exhibition of the same name, opening at the American Folk Art Museum in June 2003.

Synopsis:

An illustrated history of baseball, covering the origins of the game, some of its best-known players, and significant changes in rules and practices throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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