Rhode Island's Baseball Legacy constitutes a series of six books which focus on Rhode Island's rich baseball past. Hidden in the recesses of the Ocean State's collective memories are literally thousands of fantastic and captivating baseball stories of people, places and events. The books represent over nine years of hard work in research and writing dedicated to Rhode Island's fascination with the Grande Old Game. (To left: T- 206 Card - Circa 1909. Newport, RI Native Frank Corridon. Claimed inventor of the Spit Ball 1897. Author's collection.)