First published in 1864, this book presents a lively portrait of indoor and outdoor amusements in the 19th century--from games played with homemade toys to baseball as a new pastime. Also included are chapters on card games, arithmetical and scientific stumpers, and puzzles. Over 1,000 illustrations.

Boy's own book -- Philosophy in sport made science in earnest / [by John A. Paris].

Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.

Excerpt from Boys' Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of Athletic, Scientific, Outdoor and Indoor Sports, With Illustrations As for a single person to write a book of this description with a fair prospect of success, treating of all the different games that come under this heading, I would state that I am largely indebted to the following Works for many parts that I am not intimately acquainted with viz The American Boy's Book, Every Boy's Book; and The Modern Playmate. Many of the games have been so revised as hardly to be remembered as the same game the editor played when a boy. For example, the sim ple and almost abandoned game of Rounders, or Town Ball, has risen to a science under the name of Base Ball, while such as Croquet, Football, Cricket, and La Crosse, are given as they now exist after many years of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.