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Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Contribution to Scholarship This book begins with chapters devoted to baseballs much-disputed beginnings and baseball in North America. There are also individual chapters devoted to baseball in Asia, Latin and South America, Australia and countries down under, Europe, Africa, and nearly every country imaginable. Along with names of individuals who brought baseball to these sometimes far-away regions, the author nonetheless interjects items related to baseball that will be new or pleasingly familiar to the most ardent fan. Although geared to a select audience, nearly all baseball fans will find something about Americas pastime now grown to global proportions to hold their interest and to provoke discussion.
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