New Discovery ? Earliest Adult Baseball Fiction

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Posted By: Jason Mishelow

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