Books by Peter Morris and Complete Book Reviews

But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843–1870

Peter Morris, Author . Ivan R. Dee $26.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-56663-748-0

Morris (Game of Inches ) explores the earliest days of baseball through the voices of players and journalists who wrote about it in the 27-year period in the mid-19th century before professional baseball emerged. The earliest versions of bat-and-ball

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Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero

Peter Morris, Author Ivan R. Dee $27.50 (386p) ISBN 978-1-56663-822-7

Morris (But Didn't We Have Fun? ) offers a thorough look at the evolution of the catcher from the 1870s—when the position “became the ultimate example of the American ideal of the rugged individualist”—to the early 1900s.

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