Pictorial History of Baseball

by John Stewart Bowman, Joel Zoss

Filled with exquisite black-and-white photographs from throughout the history of the game, a magnificent pictorial history of baseball covers everything from the game's inception in 1845, through the Black Sox scandal, to Dwight Gooden.

Genres: Baseball

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

John Stewart Bowman was an American author and librettist. He received a B.A. in English literature from Harvard University and attended Trinity College, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. Bowman worked as an editor for more than 40 years and as a freelance writer for almost as long.