Abstract:
The Old Ball Ground is a chronological narrative with game-by-game coverage and player biographies along with amusing stories and fascinating facts that not only traces baseball beginnings in a small industrial New England town but also provides many missing pieces to the puzzle of baseball history. Daniel L. Genovese, a Westfield, Massachusetts, resident, has painstakingly pieced together his own Field of Dreams by researching, compiling and writing of a bygone era sadly forgotten that will not only delight history buffs of the game but will stand to give all fans of baseball a greater appreciation of the National Pastime.