"Nemec and Miklich illustrate through countless examples that the long road to baseball's modern rules has been marked by over 100 years of heated conflicts brewed in the caldron of forfeited and successfully protested major league games. Wonderful.completely altered my understanding of the "evolution" of baseball's rules."--Peter Mancuso, chairman, Nineteenth Century Committee, Society for American Baseball Research; "Nemec and Miklich show us that major league baseball was more anarchic, and consequently more intriguing, in its infancy and adolescence. Most of the games occurred in baseball's early days, which is the long suit of these two nineteenth century historians. A comprehensive reference work and a good read."--William J. Ryczek, author of Baseball's First Inning ; "In this meticulously researched study, David Nemec and Eric Miklich shed light on the neglected subject of forfeits and successfully protested game.

Their detailed analyses make this book a must for the baseball rules maven."--Peter Morris, author of A Game of Inches .