[Japan: 1934]. Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan. Gehrig barnstormed around Japan in 1934, joined... Read More
Price: $2,500
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, [1955]. First edition. Read More
Price: $500
Cleveland & New York: World, [1966]. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
[Williamsport, Ohio: c 1916]. Read More
Price: $400
Chicago and New York: Published by A. G. Spaulding & Bros, 1890. The guide first issued in 1877. Read More
Price: $1,000
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1874-1883. First edition. Early Baseball Guides. Partial run of this early baseball guide, the official publication of the Amateur and Professional Association, written by one of the fathers of the game, Henry Chadwick. Contains rules, instructions on how to score a game, player stats... Read More
Price: $10,000
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
Price: $750
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
Price: $450
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. Superb Copy. One of the key works in the literature of baseball, by one of the prime movers in its codification and development. In addition to his pitching career (which began in 1865), Spalding helped organize the National League, cofounded the... Read More
Price: $3,750
Providence: Published by Cory and Daniels, 1835. First Edition. Early "Base, or Goal Ball", 1839. Rare and early description (pp. 18-19) of the nascent game which ultimately became the national pastime "Base, or Goal Ball." Block, in "Baseball before We Knew it" at p. 76 states "William Daniels, copied Carver's 'base... Read More
Price: $750
Morristown, NJ: 1912. The Morristown Nine of 1912. A wonderful study of the team, recalling the Great National Game of home-town America, and a splendid item of New Jersey history. Read More
Price: $1,000
Providence: Published by Geo. P.Daniels, 1839. Early "Base, or Goal Ball", 1839. Rare and early description (pp. 19-20) of the nascent game which ultimately became the national pastime. OCLC notes editions of 1835 and 1836 which are equally rare, but whether or not either contains a section on baseball is not clear. Read More
Price: $2,750
Boston: W.S. Carr & Co 83 Pearl Street, 1888. Read More
Price: $250
St. Louis: Allied Printing, 1939. Celebarting Baseball's Centennial. Read More
Price: $250
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
Price: $1,350
New Haven: S. Babcock, 1849. A compendium of children's games, including a relatively early mention of baseball, as well as two illustrations of the game, one of which is a full page. Any pre-Civil War baseball references are hard to find. This is fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Rosenbach's... Read More
Price: $1,500
[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
Price: $3,000
Princeton, N.J: The Princeton University Press, 1899. With completed score sheet, showing Princeton the victor, 6-2. Read More
Price: $600
[New York:]: Liebenroth von Auw, 1887. The pictorial title page depicts a standing baseball team surrounding a seated coach, surmounted by patriotic motifs and above a design of crossed bats and equipment. The other illustrations are skillfully rendered field level scenes of a Wild Pitch, Fly Ball, Foul Ball, a.... Read More
Price: $1,500
Lakewood, Ohio: 1913-1916. Including about 18 photographs of the Lakewood (Ohio) Fire Department Baseball team of 1916, including Eernest And Dooles with the mascot; 42 photos of the Lakewood Masonic Baseball team and about 60 photos of an automobile trip from Cleveland to St. Paul in 1915; With the circus... Read More
Price: $950
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
Price: $850
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]. CRICKET TOO. Pages 83 through 93 are about baseball, with diagram, cuts, and rules; croquet at pp. 93-101; Rugby at 101-103; cricket at pp. 64 to 82 in a Chapter called "Ball Games" and reads at the start "This is essentially an English game... Read More
Price: $2,000
Montreal: Canadian Sporting Publishing Company 269 Sty. Catherine Street, West, [1925]. Read More
Price: $300
A.G. Spalding & Bros, Januray 5, 1920. Spalding's 1920 wholesale price list for dealers, fully illustrated. Price. Read More
Price: $200