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Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship

by Noah Brooks

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Noah Brooks' Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship (1884) is the first novel devoted entirely to baseball and an excellent example of local colour fiction popular during the time. Throughout the story, intense town rivalry forces the Catalpa, Illinois, community and its ball club to confront game-throwing players and to enter the debate about amateur versus professional teams. In his introduction to the book, Al Spalding champions Brooks' vivid portrayal of the ups and downs, the trials and the triumphs of a base ball club, concluding that while nothing is really needed to popular...

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