The Treasures Of Major Legue Baseball
“The Treasures of Major League Baseball” [edited by Major League Baseball] tells the rich and fascinating history of baseball through hundreds of photographs and an exhaustively researched and evocative text. The origin and evolution of the sport are explored, as are the great players, famous games and idiosyncrasies such as team owners, broadcasters and collectors of baseball souvenirs.
Another Knickerbockers player, Daniel Adams, also plays prominently into the game’s early history. At a meeting with other amateur clubs in 1857, Adams chaired a rules committee that made important changes to the sport, like putting a nine-inning cap on games and moving the distance between the bases to 90 feet.
The Treasures Of Major Legue Baseball
While writing this post about “treasures” and Doc Adams, another treasure popped into my head. In fact, I thought of it also when working on the “100 Objects” post. So please excuse me as I digress from this book to briefly recall a real treasure that I’ve had the opportunity to see. This treasure traces back to the beginning of our National Pastime. It is two uniform buttons (circa 1855) from Doc Adams Knickerbocker Base Ball Club uniform and are most likely the baseball artifact with the earliest provenance. Other than the “Laws of Base Ball” which I have also had the opportunity to see (at the Library of Congress), I can’t think of any more compelling early baseball artifacts.
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