Baseball: An Illustrated History
- ISBN-10
- 0679404597
- ISBN-13
- 9780679404590
- Series
- Baseball
- Category
- Baseball
- Pages
- 486
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Geoffrey C. Ward
Description
530 illustrations in text
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