by Peter Morris
Series: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, #1
As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins. Claims of being first with any element of the game are disputed with fervor and passion. When the octogenarian Fred Goldsmith died in 1939, a headline proclaimed, 'Goldsmith Dies Insisting He Invented Curve Ball'; Fred Goldsmith understood the secret of immortality. Yet while countless thousands of words have been spilled on the subject of baseball “firsts,” there has b
ISBN: 9781566639545
663 pages
Published: 2006-03-23
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC