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Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-15 - Publisher: Godine+ORM
The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the
Language: en
Pages: 167
Pages: 167
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-24 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-30 - Publisher: Flatiron Books
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