Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship

by Noah Brooks

Excerpt from Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the ChampionshipWhen we consider how strong a hold the pastime of base ball playing has upon our people, it is a little surprising that more frequent use of the game, as a framework, has not been made by writers of fiction. There are very few Americans, 'certainly very few of the younger generation, Who are not only familiar with the nomenclature and rules of base ball, but are enthusiastic lovers of the sport. Even among the gentler sex, who may be regarded as spectators only of the game, there is to be found much sound information and an intelligent acquaintance with the details of base ball playing; while every hearty and wholesomely taught boy knows everything worth knowing about the game, the famous players, the historic contests, and the notable features of the sport, as practiced in various sections of the republic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

226 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2018

About the author

On the editorial staff of the New York Times and New York Tribune.

Reviews

[Matthew Guerra · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story concerns a small town in Illinois organizing a base ball club to challenge for the championship. Somehow they manage to win it after playing fewer than two dozen games. The final third of the book is devoted to play-by-play accounts of the championship series. Any drama these games might have had is sapped away by the chapter headings and the title of the book, which give away the ending. A few events occur outside the "Diamond Field," but they have no real import nor are they ever resolved. The characters exist solely to move the story along.

Recommended for those interested in 19th-century base ball who are curious about the way the game was played at the time.