America's National Game, Used [Hardcover]

America's National Game, published a few years before his death in 1915, lays out the beginning of baseball and its advancement while dispensing Spalding's vivid reminiscences and firm opinions. The essential nature of the game, he thought, was warfare. And the opponents took many forms: among them the evil syndicates trying to control the sport, and more inwardly and importantly, the temptation familiar to every young man.

America's National Game, Used [Hardcover]