Early Base Ball
Start with these three books
- Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search of the Roots of the Game — David Block
- Baseball’s First Inning: A History of the National Pastime Through the Civil War — William J. Ryczek
- Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game — John Thorn
- But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Information History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era 1843-1870 — Peter Morris
- Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War — George B. Kirsch
- When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870 — William J. Ryczek
- Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century
- The Father of Baseball: A Biography of Henry Chadwick — Andrew J. Schiff
- A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: Volume 1, The Game On the Field — Peter Morris
- A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: , Volume 2, The Game Behind the Scenes — Peter Morris
- Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game — Peter Morris and William J. Ryczek
- Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide — Peter Morris and William J. Ryczek
- Baseball: The Early Years – Harold Seymour & Dorothy Seymour Mills
- Baseball: The Golden Age – Harold Seymour & Dorothy Seymour Mills
- Baseball: The People’s Game – Harold Seymour & Dorothy Seymour Mills
- Boston’s First Nine: The 1871-75 Boston Red Stockings — Edited by Bob LeMoine and Bill Nowlin
- The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball — David Nemec
- The Irish in Baseball: An Early History — David L. Fleitz
- Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery (NY) — Peter J. Nash
- Vintage Base Ball: Recapturing the National Pastime — James R. Tootle
- Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball — Richard Hershberger (Available March 8, 2019)
- Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871-1875 – William J. Ryczek
- The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game – Edward Acorn
- The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League – Robert B. Ross
- Fifty-nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had – Edward Achorn
- A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant – Bill Felber
- Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut: The Rise and Fall of the Middletown, New Haven and Hartford Clubs – David Arcidiacono
- Middletown’s Season in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut’s First Professional Baseball Team – David Arcidiacono
- Grace, Grit and Growling: The Hartford Dark Blues Base Ball Club, 1874-1877 – David Arcidiacono
- Roger Connor: Home Run King of 19th Century Baseball – Roy Kerr
- Orator O’Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical – Mike Roer
- Connecticut Baseball:: The Best of the Nutmeg State – Don Harrison
- Baseball in New Haven (CT) – Sam Rubin
- 19th Century Baseball, New Haven Style — Steve Scarpa
- The New England League: A Baseball History 1855-1949 — Charlie Bevis
- Online Articles:
- Baseball Fever 1866 – Edward Baker
- The New York Game in the Rose City: Baseball comes to Norwich, 1865-1870 – Robert D. Farwell
Recommended Books About Connecticut’s Hall of Famers | ||||
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Morgan Bulkeley (Inducted 1937) |
Roger Connor (Inducted 1976) |
Ned Hanlon (Inducted 1996) |
Jim O’Rourke (Inducted 1945) |
George Weiss (Inducted 1971) |