The History of Baseball Nathan Rex 4-24-00 Mr. Spathros/Ms. Murray Table of Contents Title Page ................................................................................. Page 1 Table of Contents ..................................................................... Page 2 Paper Begins ............................................................................. Page 3 Work Cited ................................................................................ Page 8 A child's game played with a wooden bat and a small white ball is "our national pastime." Baseball has climbed from being played by children in their backyards on Sunday afternoons to becoming a multimillion dollar corporation over the last hundred years. Baseball as we know it …
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…our national pastime." Works Cited 1) Frommer, Harvey; Album of Baseball, New York; Franklin Watts, 1988, 1-30. 2) Stewart, Mark, Baseball, New York: Franklin Watts, 1998, 1-34. 3) Heitz, Thomas, "Baseball," Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, Computer Database, Microsoft Corporation, 1998. 4) "Baseball in Transition" CBS Sportsline, America Online, 10 April 2000. 5) "History in Records" Major League Baseball, America Online, 10 April 2000. 6) Ritter, Lawrence, The Images of Their Greatness, New York: General Publishing Company, 1979, 298-355. 7) Sean Lahman, "A Brief History of Baseball", Baseball 1, online, Netscape, 4-11-00.