How Baseball Happened
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
How baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
Thomas Owen Clancy is a leading scholar of Celtic literature from the Dark Ages, with a particular focus on Scotland. His research delves into early Irish and Scottish texts, uncovering complex cultural interconnections and the significance of early medieval intellectual traditions. Clancy's work analyzes linguistic and historical nuances to illuminate the origins and development of key early literary works and figures. His approach offers a deeper understanding of Scotland's and Celtic culture's heritage.


How baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary.