Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 7

John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

Table of Contents
• Volume 7 • Fall 2013

Editor’s Note delete delete(John Thorn)

Split Season: The National League in 1892 (Charles C. Alexander)

The Base Ball Convention of 1857 delete delete(Richard Hershberger)

Jimmy Callahan: He Covered All the Bases in Chicago delete delete(Art Ahrens)

Eadweard Muybridge and Baseball-in-Motion delete delete(Rob Edelman)

Bud Fowler—A Knight of the Diamond, a Knight of the Razor delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)

Bud Fowler—Playwright delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)

William Shuttleworth: The Father of Canadian Baseball delete delete(William Humber)

The Sam Barkley Case delete delete(David Ball with David Nemec)

A Permanent Institution: The Base Ball Season of 1863 delete delete(Robert Tholkes)

“A Puritan Sunday”: Base Ball and Blue Laws in Walla Walla, Washington (Terry Gottschall)

Frank Merriwell: A Hero for a Bygone Era delete delete(Rob Edelman)

Baseball Goes East: The 1876 San Francisco Centennials’ Magical Mystery Tour delete delete(Angus Macfarlane)

Author Index