{"product_id":"but-didnt-we-have-fun-an-informal-history-of-baseballs-pioneer-era-1843-1870-9781566638494","title":"But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Morris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ivan R. Dee Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Baseball - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. \u003ci\u003eBut Didn't We Have Fun?\u003c\/i\u003e will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eA Game of Inches\u003c\/i\u003e, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that really happened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivan R. Dee Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411460219031,"sku":"9781566638494","price":1534.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781566638494.webp?v=1767672799","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/but-didnt-we-have-fun-an-informal-history-of-baseballs-pioneer-era-1843-1870-9781566638494","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}