Book of Donmon Teith

Offering the best in original research and analysis, Base Ball is an annually published book series that promotes the study of baseball's early history, from it

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During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, pl