Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game Review

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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game Review"Baseball in the Garden of Eden: A Secret History of the Early Game" is densely packed with wonderful stories and imagery. It took me quite some time to read because I frequently paused in my reading to consider the information and to visualize what it must have been like in the early days of the game.
The premise of the book is that baseball's beloved creation myths are all lies.
Goodbye Doubleday and Cartwright. Rather than beginning on the green fields of small town America or with the game of cricket in England, the real origins of baseball were in the Garden of Eden or somewhat nearby in the Nile Valley c. 1460 BCE. There, carved on the wall of a temple at Deir-el-Bahri, is a relief showing the young pharoah Tutmosis III participating in a game with a bat and ball which surely must have been baseball. He and his team are playing to honor the godess Hathor who was perhaps the first female club owner in the game.
From the Nile Valley and over the centuries, baseball with variations, seems to have been played in many parts of the world. We come to England in the 19th century
where cricket was the most popular sport. Then we come to the US, where we have the origins and development of American style baseball as we know it today. In 19th century America it became a glorious game in the sunshine and a game of greed and gambling in its shadows. Every organization seems to have had a team. Many of them used teams to further their goals, honest or nefarious, often being vehicles to promote religious tenets or propaganda. 19th century Theosophist and occultist Madame Blavatsky was associated with the game for a time, as were businesses and fraternal organizations.
The game was very colorful to look at back then. Players often wore uniforms resembling racing silks with a different color for each position. Many of the game's leading characters were very colorful as well and not the benign beloved heroes they have become in baseball mythology. Albert Goodwill Spaulding was not just the guy whose name (Spaldeen") resonated as we played stickball in the steets. He had a secret life and an out-of-wedlock child whom he later adopted. This story and many others about baseball's characters are told in an engaging fashion in this book.
The book contains great photos (I wish there more of them) and an excellent index.
The book could change even a casual fan into a lover of baseball history. I was a fairly knowledgable fan. After I read another work on baseball's history, David Block's "Baseball Before We Knew It," I became a passionate fan of the game and its history. "Baseball in the Garden of Eden" could do the same thing for other fans.
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