Baseball: America's Pastime

Baseball: America's Pastime

The baseball season may be on hold, but you can still delve into the history, legends, and greatest moments of America's National Sport at James Cummins Bookseller. Highlights include A rare, early, large format "coffee-table" book on the sport, which, by this time, had already become the "national game”; an original pen and ink of flying Bums ... entitled "The Boid is on the Wing,” by award-winning American sports cartoonist, Willard Mullin; a Thornton Fisher cartoon panel commemorating the first Opening Day of Yankee Stadium, April 18, 1923; a rare photograph of two legendary athletes, Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis, posing playfully side by side, Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder, Louis standing with his fists clenched, ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin; as well as numerous first editions and hard to find titles.

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Item #40050 Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca....

Baseball Sports Caricature, Philadelphia, Ca. 1905

Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905.

Philadelphia [?]: Ca. 1905. Baseball Sports Caricature, Philadelphia, Ca. 1905. The subjects, two dapper young men seated in third base line box seats, are identified as Bill Reynolds and Tommy O'Keefe. Both are nattily dressed, with diamond stickpins in their ties; Tommy wears a straw boater with a hatband labeled..... Read More about Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905

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Item #232320 Sanders’ Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to “Sanders’ First Reader”....

1846 Baseball Image

Sanders’ Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to “Sanders’ First Reader”.

New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co, (1846). 1846 Baseball Image. Charles Sanders was the author of a very successful series of school readers. His first primer was published in 1840 with the same image, and the “Pictorial Primer” appeared in 1846. American Imprints cites two other edition..... Read More about Sanders’ Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to “Sanders’ First Reader”

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Item #244662 Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson. Baseball

Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson.

Boston: Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street (nera Milk Street). Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street, 1895. A rare trade catalogue of 19th-century baseball gear, profusely illustrated with wood-engravings of products offered by Wright & Ditson -- including Spalding bats and mitts, catcher's masks, bases, shoes, uniforms and caps..... Read More about Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson

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Item #53897 Nineteenth Century Naive album of Black and Baseball Interest with a Label 'specimens...

Nineteenth Century Naive album of Black and Baseball Interest with a Label 'specimens of Drawing by James Pirnie No. 6...

[Brooklyn: 1860's]. Very interesting album of a talented amateur draughtsman drawings, including one of 'sambo" playing the banjo, several baseball drawings, e.g., a Baseball player 'seeing Stars" dated January 15, 1867, p. 15, s baseball Diamond, Lacrosse Player, a Firemen "running to a Fire", p. 25 (with coloring), etc.... Read More about Nineteenth Century Naive album of Black and Baseball Interest with a Label 'specimens of Drawing...

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Item #234945 Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together. Baseball

The Yankee Clipper & the Bronx Bomber Pose Together

Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together.

N.p: n.d. [1940s?]. The Yankee Clipper & the Bronx Bomber Pose Together. Rare photograph of the two legendary athletes posing playfully side by side, Dimaggio grinning with his bat cocked over right shoulder, Louis standing with his fists clenched, ready to land a right to Dimaggio's chin. According to biographers..... Read More about Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together

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Item #239634 Runner Mack. Barry Beckham

Inscribed to the Editor

Runner Mack.

New York: William Morrow, 1972. First edition. Inscribed to the Editor. INSCRIBED, "To Phil, As editor, all problems of theme, structure, style and character are of course your responsibilty! Best Barry 12/11/82." Read More about Runner Mack

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Item #238116 Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration,...

Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration, commemorating the 1916 pennant win by the Brooklyn Robins. Titled in...

n.p: [1916]. The drawing depicts an allegorical figure of Manhattan, in colonial garb, tipping his hat and bowing in homage to his neighbor across the Brooklyn Bridge: a rotund figure in a Brooklyn baseball uniform, bat in one hand, pennant in the other, standing in a field with "Brooklyn B.B...... Read More about Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration, commemorating the 1916...

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