Baseball in the Garden of Eden : Baseball in the Garden of Eden

from SethAndrew

A fantastic history on the beginning of the National Pastime. Thorn discounts the long held beliefs of baseball's origins and presents the games true evolution. Along the way he tells a fascinating and extremely well researched story. A must read for baseball fans and history buffs alike. Thorns ...

from joeldinda

This book is not perfect--there's more repetition than I'd like, and Thorn comes very close to alleging that the creation of the Doubleday myth was a true conspiracy. Nonetheless: An absolutely delightful work of baseball history. Everyone interested should read it. This is a well-researched hist...

from jrgoetziii

Exceedingly interesting parallels with Milton's Paradise Lost (obviously hinted at by the title invoking Milton's setting but also by chapters such as Chapter 5, "War in Heaven"), but still not convinced about the role of the Theosophists in shaping the Mills Commission or sending Abner Graves to...

from flexatone

John Thron takes as his point of departure the debunking of the myth that Abner Doubleday, in one fell swoop, invented the American game of baseball. In doing so, he takes us on an exciting tour of nineteenth century baseball. This is a history book just as exciting as Roger Angel's best paeans. ...

from nmele

It starts slowly, but this history of baseball in the nineteenth century is fascinating and very readable. Who knew that Theosophists were instrumental in naming Abner Doubleday the inventor of baseball? or who knew that the first World Series was played in 1884, not 1903?