John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

“one of the more compelling sports-related publications to come along in a great while...unostentatious, solid, and a great read”—Library Journal; “fascinating.”—Journal of Sport History; “the journal both embodies recent trends and provides a forum for expanding upon them. Base Ball thus represents an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport. John Thorn, a respected historian of early baseball history, is the journal’s editor and Base Ball has a first-rate editorial board and, as a result, already appears poised to be among the finest journals dedicated to the history of sports”—Arete; “never comes up short in the quality of its content. In addition to the fine research articles there is a valuable section of book reviews, mostly dedicated to books pertaining to 19th century baseball”—Nineteenth Century Notes; “an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport...seeks to chronicle, analyze, and expand our understanding of the game during its long, and seemingly getting longer, pre 1920 phase”—Society for American Baseball Research Bibliography Committee Newsletter.

• Table of Contents• Volume 7 • Fall 2013Editor’s Note delete delete(John Thorn)Split Season: The National League in 1892 (Charles C. Alexander)The Base Ball Convention of 1857 delete delete(Richard Hershberger)Jimmy Callahan: He Covered All the Bases in Chicago delete delete(Art Ahrens) Eadweard Muybridge and Baseball-in-Motion delete delete(Rob Edelman)Bud Fowler—A Knight of the Diamond, a Knight of the Razor delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)Bud Fowler—Playwright delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)William Shuttleworth: The Father of Canadian Baseball delete delete(William Humber)The Sam Barkley Case delete delete(David Ball with David Nemec)A Permanent Institution: The Base Ball Season of 1863 delete delete(Robert Tholkes)“A Puritan Sunday”: Base Ball and Blue Laws in Walla Walla, Washington (Terry Gottschall)Frank Merriwell: A Hero for a Bygone Era delete delete(Rob Edelman)Baseball Goes East: The 1876 San Francisco Centennials’ Magical Mystery Tour delete delete(Angus Macfarlane)Author Index

John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

“one of the more compelling sports-related publications to come along in a great while...unostentatious, solid, and a great read”—Library Journal; “fascinating.”—Journal of Sport History; “the journal both embodies recent trends and provides a forum for expanding upon them. Base Ball thus represents an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport. John Thorn, a respected historian of early baseball history, is the journal’s editor and Base Ball has a first-rate editorial board and, as a result, already appears poised to be among the finest journals dedicated to the history of sports”—Arete; “never comes up short in the quality of its content. In addition to the fine research articles there is a valuable section of book reviews, mostly dedicated to books pertaining to 19th century baseball”—Nineteenth Century Notes; “an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport...seeks to chronicle, analyze, and expand our understanding of the game during its long, and seemingly getting longer, pre 1920 phase”—Society for American Baseball Research Bibliography Committee Newsletter.

• Table of Contents• Volume 7 • Fall 2013Editor’s Note delete delete(John Thorn)Split Season: The National League in 1892 (Charles C. Alexander)The Base Ball Convention of 1857 delete delete(Richard Hershberger)Jimmy Callahan: He Covered All the Bases in Chicago delete delete(Art Ahrens) Eadweard Muybridge and Baseball-in-Motion delete delete(Rob Edelman)Bud Fowler—A Knight of the Diamond, a Knight of the Razor delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)Bud Fowler—Playwright delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)William Shuttleworth: The Father of Canadian Baseball delete delete(William Humber)The Sam Barkley Case delete delete(David Ball with David Nemec)A Permanent Institution: The Base Ball Season of 1863 delete delete(Robert Tholkes)“A Puritan Sunday”: Base Ball and Blue Laws in Walla Walla, Washington (Terry Gottschall)Frank Merriwell: A Hero for a Bygone Era delete delete(Rob Edelman)Baseball Goes East: The 1876 San Francisco Centennials’ Magical Mystery Tour delete delete(Angus Macfarlane)Author Index

John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

“one of the more compelling sports-related publications to come along in a great while...unostentatious, solid, and a great read”—Library Journal; “fascinating.”—Journal of Sport History; “the journal both embodies recent trends and provides a forum for expanding upon them. Base Ball thus represents an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport. John Thorn, a respected historian of early baseball history, is the journal’s editor and Base Ball has a first-rate editorial board and, as a result, already appears poised to be among the finest journals dedicated to the history of sports”—Arete; “never comes up short in the quality of its content. In addition to the fine research articles there is a valuable section of book reviews, mostly dedicated to books pertaining to 19th century baseball”—Nineteenth Century Notes; “an exciting and important contribution to literature on the sport...seeks to chronicle, analyze, and expand our understanding of the game during its long, and seemingly getting longer, pre 1920 phase”—Society for American Baseball Research Bibliography Committee Newsletter.

• Table of Contents• Volume 7 • Fall 2013Editor’s Note delete delete(John Thorn)Split Season: The National League in 1892 (Charles C. Alexander)The Base Ball Convention of 1857 delete delete(Richard Hershberger)Jimmy Callahan: He Covered All the Bases in Chicago delete delete(Art Ahrens) Eadweard Muybridge and Baseball-in-Motion delete delete(Rob Edelman)Bud Fowler—A Knight of the Diamond, a Knight of the Razor delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)Bud Fowler—Playwright delete delete(Hugh MacDougall)William Shuttleworth: The Father of Canadian Baseball delete delete(William Humber)The Sam Barkley Case delete delete(David Ball with David Nemec)A Permanent Institution: The Base Ball Season of 1863 delete delete(Robert Tholkes)“A Puritan Sunday”: Base Ball and Blue Laws in Walla Walla, Washington (Terry Gottschall)Frank Merriwell: A Hero for a Bygone Era delete delete(Rob Edelman)Baseball Goes East: The 1876 San Francisco Centennials’ Magical Mystery Tour delete delete(Angus Macfarlane)Author Index