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The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 19th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830–1850s.
The book series' origins came from Harold Seymour's 1956 Ph.D. dissertation which was entitled The Rise of Major League Baseball to 1891. Oxford University Press approached him to expand the dissertation into a book which became the first of three volumns. [1] Working alongside Seymour was his wife Dorothy. Seymour found that his wife's work ...
The Baseball Cyclopedia; Baseball Dynasties; The Baseball Encyclopedia; Baseball Guides; The Big Fella; The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract; The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych; Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues; Bless You Boys; The Boys of Summer (book) The Bronx Zoo (book) Bryce's Base Ball Guide; Bums ...
Baseball, widely known as America's pastime, is well established in several other countries as well. The history of baseball in Canada has remained closely linked with that of the sport in the United States. As early as 1877, a professional league, the International Association, featured teams from both countries. [94]
Though Seymour was initially credited as the sole author of the highly acclaimed trilogy, his wife Dorothy Seymour Mills was the one who did much of the extensive research and writing for the books. The Seymour Medal, awarded annually by the Society for American Baseball Research to the best baseball book, is named after Dorothy and Harold Seymour.
The book recounts the history of baseball through anecdotes about iconic pitches and interviews with pitchers such as Hall of Famers Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan, as well as pitchers like Jamie Moyer and J.R. Richard. It also describes the mechanics of pitching, and its centrality to the game of baseball.
Pages in category "History of baseball in the United States" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Black Diamond has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine, [2] and Book Report. [3] The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on Negro league baseball vocabulary. [4] Black Diamonds is a 1994 CCBC Choice, [5] a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book, [6] and received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award author honor. [7]