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Title: Base-Ball
How to Become a Player
Author: John M. Ward
Release Date: November 30, 2006 [EBook #19975]
Language: English
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Base-Ball: How to Become a Player
With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game
By John Montgomery Ward of the New York Base-Ball Club
PREFACE.
The author ventures to present this book to the public, because he
believes there are many points in the game of base-ball which can be
told only by a player. He has given some space to a consideration of the
origin and early history of the game, because they are subjects
deserving of more attention than is generally accorded them.
His principal aim, however, has been to produce a hand-book of the game,
a picture of the play as seen by a player. In many of its branches,
base-ball is still in its infancy; even in the actual play there are yet
many unsettled points, and the opinions of experts differ upon important
questions. The author has been as accurate as the nature of the subject
would permit, and, though claiming no especial consideration for his own
opinions, he thinks they will coincide in substance with those of the
more experienced and intelligent players.
To Messrs. A. H. Wright, Henry Chadwick, Harry Wright, and James Whyte
Davis, for materials of reference, and to Goodwin & Co., the Scientific
American, and A. J. Reach, for engravings and cuts, acknowledgments are
gratefully made.
JOHN M. WARD.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION. AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF BASE-BALL, WITH A BRIEF
SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY
CHAPTER I. THEORY OF THE GAME--A CHAPTER FOR THE LADIES.
CHAPTER II. TRAINING
CHAPTER III. THE PITCHER
CHAPTER IV. THE CATCHER
CHAPTER V. THE FIRST BASEMAN
CHAPTER VI. THE SECOND BASEMAN
CHAPTER VII. THE THIRD BASEMAN
CHAPTER VIII. THE SHORT-STOP
CHAPTER IX. THE LEFT-FIELDER
CHAPTER X. THE CENTRE-FIELDER
CHAPTER XI. THE RIGHT-FIELDER
CHAPTER XII. THE BATTER
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