Second Great Match Game for the Championship,_Athletics and Atlantics, 1866; J. L. Magee; Reach stands by bats at left, arms crossed.
"In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the 'railroad pace' at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins. Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Ken Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation."
PBS - Part 1: Our Game (Video)
Ancient Base Balls - John Thorn
W - Abner Doubleday myth, W - Abner Doubleday, W - Cooperstown, New York, W - Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey
Baseball Stars of the 19th Century
19c Baseball
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914, Card Sets in Chronological Order
The 'Secret History' Of Baseball's Earliest Days - John Thorn (Audio)
A late 1800s lithograph of a baseball game.
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