New Discovery ? Earliest Adult Baseball Fiction
 

Posted By: <b>Jason Mishelow</b><p>I came accros this book quite by accident during ebay searches. It is titled The Tim Bunker Papers or Yankee Farming. Published in 1868, the book is a collection of fictional letters offering some home spun advice on a number of topics. Th following pages are the baseball section which deals with betting, expense of baseball and a general distain for those who play. While there are a couple fo earlier children's fiction titles I cannot think of an earlier work aimed at adults. In any event fun reading. I have only been able to get the first page of the section posted, but the remaining 3 pages go on in a similar vain about the evils of baseball - will try to post the rest later <br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1221428020.JPG">

New Discovery ? Earliest Adult Baseball Fiction
 

Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>All early baseball fiction I know of was written for a young audience, so this very possibly could be the earliest adult fiction.