Baseball for Everyone - Tapa dura

This is a colourful tour of baseball's history, celebrated and illustrated in American folk art and collectables. From pick-up games played by children, Civil War soldiers, firemen and college students to the formation of the first professional leagues, this is a democratic look at the sport illustrated with early baseball cards, paintings, quilts, signs, carved bats and more. The great players are here, too, depicted by the fans who loved them.

Janet Wyman Coleman is the author of Famous Bears & Friends: 100 Years of Teddy Bear Stories, Poems, Songs, and Heroics. She lives in Wayland, Massachusetts. Elizabeth V. Warren was the Curator of the American Folk Art Museum from 1984 to 1990, and has been the museum's Consulting Curator since 1991. She is the author of Abrams' The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, and curator of the exhibition of the same name, opening at the American Folk Art Museum in June 2003.