But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era,… (edição 2008)

Being an "informal history" of baseball's very early days. Morris' thesis is that historians have underestimated the fun quotient in their accounts of early baseball. His approach pays very little attention to individual games or players, certainly not the prominent ones, but simply uses recollections of the players as well as newspaper accounts of the day to generate a mental picture of the old days out at the old ballyard. He succeeds in this quite richly. If one wanted to quibble a little, I could have done with less emphasis on examples from his home state and perhaps letting his thesis speak for itself rather than his occasional attempts to shoehorn material into it. ( )

A good, fun read. Could have used a bit of editing to tighten up the text. ( )