ABSTRACT
Professor Cashmore: I recently stopped off in the late twentieth century and had the opportunity of reading the third edition your book Making Sense of Sports in which you make reference to the Back to the Future films and venture to imagine what sports might have been like in 1880. Before we continue, I should perhaps point out that in 1898, I wrote a book entitled The Time Machine which was popularly thought to be a work of fiction. You are probably already anticipating that this was not the case: it was based on factual experience. I was visited by a time traveler who had constructed an appliance capable of carrying her through the fourth dimension of time and who kindly allowed me to journey with her, at first to the year 802701, where I made the observations that were recorded in my book.
