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.)
				Rhode Island has played baseball for a long, long time. The earliest known written reference to baseball nationally was a "base ball" challenge between an upstate New York town team to a neighboring town in 1825. In 1827, Brown University student, Williams Latham, wrote two entries in his diary that establishes beyond a doubt that baseball was being played in RI at that time. The Rhode Island Baseball Legacy series begins in 1827 and meanders through Rhody's baseball heritage taking many leisurely stops along the way.