Big League Balderdash

Baseball's Origins Reimagined.Forget Abner Doubleday, the Elysian Fields and the rest of those antiquated chestnuts from the past-Big League Balderdash turns the myth of baseball's origins on its head and replaces it with a fresh, satirical revamp flavored with a twist of biting humor and irony. Follow the game from the mid-1800s as it hurls headlong through its first four decades, beginning as a rustic diversion in a logging camp and culminating with the first-ever...
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Baseball's Origins Reimagined.Forget Abner Doubleday, the Elysian Fields and the rest of those antiquated chestnuts from the past-Big League Balderdash turns the myth of baseball's origins on its head and replaces it with a fresh, satirical revamp flavored with a twist of biting humor and irony. Follow the game from the mid-1800s as it hurls headlong through its first four decades, beginning as a rustic diversion in a logging camp and culminating with the first-ever "World's Series," a winner-take-all contest between industrialist J. Barron Sterne's prim and proper American Association League and pugnacious National Frontier League headed by chirpy beer baron Pete Schnockerd. Along the way you'll encounter the ballplayers: the swilling, gambling, fighting and bamboozling characters who turn the game into America's pastime. Big League Balderdash is a rollicking tale that's as true as a legend ever is. Complete with player profiles and over 100 original illustrations.