Our frontier pastime: 1804- 1815 : how the sport was born and developed in the American West among the Indians known to Lewis and Clark, according to the honorably honest and genuinely humble Benjamin Batman Bunt, the forgotten "Father of Baseball,"--as BBB himself and others related the whole true story to L.C. Crouch Cover Image

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Our frontier pastime: 1804- 1815 : how the sport was born and developed in the American West among the Indians known to Lewis and Clark, according to the honorably honest and genuinely humble Benjamin Batman Bunt, the forgotten "Father of Baseball,"--as BBB himself and others related the whole true story to L.C. Crouch / by Gregory J. Lalire.

Summary:

"Our Frontier Pastime: 1804-1815 is offbeat historical fiction as 'truthfully' told in 1908 by ninety-six-year-old L.C. Crouch, who wants the world to know that Captain Benjamin Batman Bunt, not Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright, was the inventor of baseball. It is Crouch's contention that BBB, with an assist from Nez Percés and other western American Indians as well as a spirited great horned owl, became the "Father of Baseball" while traveling with the groundbreaking Lewis and Clark Expedition in a highly unofficial capacity--babysitting "the Babe" for Sacagawea, the secret love of BBB's life, and, as it turns out, a pretty fair country ballplayer" -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781432852177
ISBN: 1432852175
Physical Description: 429 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Five Star, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.