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12-22-2007 08:35 AM |
A Defense of Baseball
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>I recently purchased William Everett's Thine Not Mine on ebay. After 20 or so years of my looking for the book and only knowing of 1 copy, 3 have showed up on ebay this year.<br /><br />There would seem to be substantially more baseball in this 1891 book then in the earlier books Double Play and Changing Base.<br /><br />The ebay seller added this information on Everett<br /><br /><i>The author was the son of famous 19th Century orator Edward Everett (who shared the podium with Lincoln on the day of the Gettysburg Address) , and was an early fan of baseball who wrote the first substantive work of fiction (after an earlier children's toy book) to feature baseball in the plot , a boy's book titled "Changing Base". He published a second similar book called "Double Play" in 1871 , and this , "Thine , Not Mine" , is his third such book , although it is subtitled as a sequel to the first . <b>There is in existance an extremely rare pamphlet by him , "A Defense of Baseball" , </b>known only by a single copy in Harvard Library's Rare Baseball Memorabilia Collection . He was a graduate of Harvard College (1859) . The theme of character development through sportsmanship and baseball playing carries the plot along on in several chapters of this book , apparently much more so than the original "Changing Base" book . </i><br /><br />Has anyone seen or heard of this pamphlet?<br /><br />
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