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<h2>Contents</h2> List of Illustrations 000 Foreword by Tim Wiles 000 Preface 000 Acknowledgments 000 1. Uncertainty as to the Paternity 000 2. Rounders Schmounders 000 3. Abner and Albert, the Missing Link 000 4. Was Abner Graves Telling the Truth? 000 5. Rules of Baseball: The Prequel 000 6. How Slick Were the Knicks? 000 7. In the Beginning 000 8. Stools, Clubs, Stobs, and Jugs 000 9. Traps and Cats 000 10. It's Starting to Look Familiar 000 11. In Which the Mystery Is Unraveled 000 Early Baseball Bibliography: Roots of the Game in PreCivil War Literature 000 Appendix 1. Constitutions and By-Laws 000 Appendix 2. Some Comments on Sporting Journals of the 1850s 000 Appendix 3. "'A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball" by Thomas L. Altherr 000 Appendix 4. The Letters of Abner Graves 000 Appendix 5. Dr. Adam E. Ford's Letter to Sporting Life 000 Appendix 6. "History of Battingball Games" by Per Maigaard 000 Appendix 7. Nine Surviving Descriptions of Baseball-like Games Written and Published before 1845 000 Notes 000 Principal Sources Consulted 000 Index 000
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Baseball -- History.