Seelochan Beharry

Baseball is a game I truly love. Through “The Prehistories of Baseball” I seek to promote a deeper appreciation and understanding of baseball. When we know our past, we can understand not only baseball but be more accepting of ourselves and others. Our common enthusiasm for baseball connects us with each other and younger generations.

My love of sports was embedded at a young age as part of my British Caribbean upbringing in Guyana, South America. Though I watched baseball while a university student my first “hands-on” experience came as a parent coach in Canada. Twenty-five years later I still enjoy coaching.

Being an outsider allowed me to view the game from a different perspective. As I became more involved in baseball and attended coaching conferences, I read extensively about the history of the game. I sought to understand baseball’s earliest beginnings. My training as a science researcher enabled me to ask and answer important questions: where did baseball come from, who created it, and why was it made. These searches led beyond America, into the roots of people who brought the game to the New World in the 17th through 19th centuries.

Bringing together knowledge from Early British and continental European histories, anthropologies, religions, mythologies and philosophies I searched for documentation, traces and relics of baseball and its precursor games.

Over a decade in the making, “The Prehistories of Baseball” tells the story of baseball. Building upon research of previous authors this work extends our knowledge of baseball to its most ancient past. From America, to Britain and Europe (Celts, Druids and others), to ancient India, to early humans and primal skills – the appeal of baseball lives on.

Seelochan Beharry Ph.D.