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Posted By: Jason Mishelow

Now Max- I doubt that this is going to happen often but I have to correct you on one point- The Bobbin Boy is acutal 1860 not 1863. I picked up a copy a number of months ago on ebay for 7 dollars. The baseball content is intersting but I am not sure it is really baseball. It sounds like an early rounder's form. When reading the books baseball chapter you have to remember that the events in the book are recalling the childhood of the character and therefore would have been occuring in the 1820's or 30's. But your right, at 10 dollars it is well worth the pickup if for no other reason it may contain the first example of showboating as the character runs out a "home run" backwards with flips