Download or read book Old Time Baseball written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was emerging as the preeminent forum for truly professional baseball.