Baseball when the grass and everything else was real (AP)
Date : 15 May 2008 Category : Entertainment
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AP - "But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870" (286 pages, Ivan R. Dee, $27.50) by Peter Morris: Any institution that endures in American culture passes through an interesting transitional period the time when it straddles the line between an informal practice and a more structured, formal activity.