Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 8

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 8 • Fall 2014

Editor’s Note (John Thorn)

An Early Baseball Play and an Early Baseball Novel: Who Wrote ’em? (Rob Edelman)

Searching for James Creighton (Thomas W. Gilbert)

Return to Conventional Wisdom on Candy Cummings (David Arcidiacono)

The Oldest Trick in the Book (Bill Deane)

Broke Up by the Dutch Fight (John Zinn)

1873, Waverly Fairgrounds, and the Resolutes of Elizabeth (David Krell)

A Deadball Era Whodunit: The Unsolved 1911 Murder of Indianapolis Indians Pitcher Lefty Craig (William F. Lamb)

The Mystery of Horace B. Phillips (Brock Helander)

The Dismantling of the National League’s First Dynasty: Phase 1 (David Ball with David Nemec)

Rube Waddell’s Theater of the Absurd: The Hilarious Histrionics

of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Flake (Dan ­O’Brien)

The Antebellum Growth and Spread of the New York Game (Richard Hershberger)

Broken Windows: Springfield, Massachusetts (Brian Turner)

The “X” Letters (Robert Tholkes)