Baseball In The Garden Of Eden: The Secret History Of The Early Game (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Theosophy almost lost me, but I promised myself 8 baseball books between seasons and after a few painful nights, i realized by book's end, why I had to suffer. The insights into 19th century baseball, both in the games played and the extraneous personage, was well worth the read. I loved it until the theosophy, and even with the dip that the book took while I was struggling through it, the remainder of the book was excellent enough to keep this a five. Smart, informative, excellent for baseball fan interested in the early game. I only wish that John Thorn was a more eloquent writer. His language does just what history should do, and he comes up with some beautiful sentiments, like "...the golden age of baseball might accurately be identified with whenever one happened to be twelve years old..." the clumsiness of that sentence obscures the charm of its idea.
What do You think about Baseball In The Garden Of Eden: The Secret History Of The Early Game (2011)?
As fun as it is informative, informative not only of baseball of American culture as well.
—sylvia
good read lots of neat inside oldtime baseball stuff
—nivk
So good. Best book I've read in months.
—Letiiciahm
