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Author
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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 Perces and other western American Indians as well as a spirited great horned owl, became the "Father of Baseball" while traveling...