Baseball Before We Knew It by David Block

	List of Illustrations	x
	Foreward by Tim Wales	xiii
	Preface	xix
	Acknowledgments	xxiii
1.	Uncertainty as to the Paternity	1
2.	Rounders, Schmounders	22
3.	Abner and Albert, the Missing Link by Philip Block	32
4.	Was Abner Graves Telling the Truth?	50
5.	Rules of Baseball: The Prequel	67
6.	How Slick Were the Knicks	80
7.	In the Beginning	94
8.	Stools, Clubs, Stobs, and Jugs	105
9.	Traps and Cats	124
10.	It's Starting to Look Familiar	134
11.	Baseball Before We Knew It	152
	Early Baseball Bibliography: Roots of the Game in Pre-Civil War Literature	163
	APPENDIX 1. Constitutions and By-Laws	223
	APPENDIX 2. Some Comments on Sporting Journals of the 1850s	225
	APPENDIX 3. "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball" by Thomas L. Altherr	229
	APPENDIX 4. The Letters of Abner Graves	252
	APPENDIX 5. Dr. Adam E. Ford's Letter to Sporting Life	257
	APPENDIX 6. Battingball Games by Per Maigaard	260
	APPENDIX 7. Nine Surviving Descriptions of Baseball-like Games Written and Published before 1845	275
	Notes	287
	Principal Sources Consulted	323
	Index	325