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 | #3700105 in Books |  2001-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.80 x5.50l,.74 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great insights into baseball and the religious roots of the sport|By John Scott|Very interesting, well-researched work into baseball, and the religious roots of the sport, from Egyptian times, when ball games were something directed by the priests, into the middle ages, when priests and bishops officiated ball games, and where there was religious significance to the sports. For| |Henderson is by all odds the world's foremost student and soundest historian of . . . games that are played with a ball. -- John Lardner, New York Times Book

Covers the origins not only of baseball but of a score of related sports involving hitting, catching, throwing, or kicking a ball. This title traces the origins of ball sports to religious rites in ancient Egypt, where the ball represented a fertility symbol and opposing teams engaged in mock combat signifying the struggle of good against evil.

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