By M&C News Apr 7, 2008, 10:25 GMT
Peter Morris has written a book about basketball and the history behind it. But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 is the book’s full title.
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Just as proof that the sport did exist before Michael Jordan.
“The arbiters and keepers of the game that Peter Morris describes in “But Didn’t We Have Fun?” seem to have been far more effective in policing the perpetual questions of performance enhancement than were the leaders of baseball in the late 20th century,” the NYT states.
The book is illustrated, and according to Publishers Weekly, “Morris writes that two factors brought the pioneer era of amateur play to an end: the Civil War and the increasing seriousness of players who changed games from ceremonial pastime to cutthroat competitions. Morris has done vast research and quotes many of his sources at length. His focus on a detailed account of baseball's development, however, does not provide much insight into the people who played the game.”
Ivan R. Dee, is the publisher. Click here for the NYT article.
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