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This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.
The View From The Box . The H.H. Babcock Company . Liveries of Famous Families . Tony and the "Good Times". Assembling a Wheel for Tiring . Restoring the Lawrie Tub Cart .. Stables and Carriage Houses in Reading .... Winter- The Road.. . . . . . . . . . . . .. How They Came to Pass . . . The Wagoner's Special Reserve . The Australia Bicentennial Driving Show . The Fifth North American Pleasure Driving Championship . A History of the East Aurora Driving Soc . Centenary London to Brighton .. Memories-Mostly Horsy .. Questions & Answers Book Reviews . The Carriage Trade
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."