The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club: Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball

The Great Match (1887) and
Our Base Ball Club
(1884) were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by baseball scholars Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker, this volume, the tenth in the
McFarland Historical Baseball Library , is for anyone with an interest in early baseball and its place in the nineteenth century popular imagination.