Baseball's legacy is the result of many influences, inventions and innovations

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	• A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball Volume 1: The Game on the Field Peter Morris Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Game of inches goes the wholw Nine Yards!

This is a must for any base ball fan interested in the evolution of the game. Mr. Morris covers the bases with subjects like the introduction of pine tar to the elimination of left handed 2nd basemen. He does it with a narrative style you don't find in many historical books. It is the vintage ballists companion.

Game of Inches: Part I

A genuinely outstanding book, probably the most important baseball history book published this year. Morris has found something new and important in his research on virtually every page, and writes very well. It is amazing how many of the basic strategies and tactics of baseball can be documented as having been used in 1860, and certainly by the 1890s.

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Baseball's legacy is the result of many influences, inventions and innovations

A GAME OF INCHES: THE STORIES BEHIND THE INNOVATIONS THAT SHAPED BASEBALL isn't your usual coverage of major players or major memorable games: it's the first of two projected volumes to provide an encyclopedia reference covering the origins of the sport's major items, from catchers' masks to cork-center baseballs. Included in each listing are discussions of what led each new item to emerge when and how it did - much in the manner of a Burke review of history's causes and influences - and a chronicle of the responses to these changes and innovations. Baseball's legacy is the result of many influences, inventions and innovations: here's the place to read about them all.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

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For Baseball Fans

Any fan of baseball on any level will enjoy this well researched volume on the development of baseball as it is played today.

A Game of Inches

A Game of Inches is an excellent resource for the serious baseball fan as well as an interesting read for the more casual fan. Peter Morris's exhaustive research and analytical writing style make this book the definitive work on the innovations in baseball since the mid-1800s.

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A fascinating and charming encyclopedic collection of baseball firsts, describing how the innovations in the game--in rules, equipment, styles of play, strategies, etc.--occurred and developed from its origins to the present day. The book relies heavily on quotations from contemporary sources.

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