New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]. BASEBALL, GOLF, AND CRICKET TOO. Pages 83 through 93 are about baseball... Read More about The Play Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. A Book of Healthy Recreations for Youth. ...
Price: $2,000
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, [1955]. First edition. Read More about Man on Spikes
Price: $500
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1884. First edition. Issued in both cloth and boards, it is undetermined which precedes. While earlier novels employed baseball as a plot element, or baseball illustrations, this is the true starting point for any baseball fiction collection. A nice copy of a book usually found well..... Read More about Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship
Price: $1,000
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing, (1948). First edition. Read More about The Dodgers and Me: The Inside Story
Price: $75
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
Price: $750
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. Frst Edition. One of the much sought-after Putnam Sports Series of baseball team histories chronicling the New York Giants from their inception as a National League member in 1883. Read More about The New York Giants: An Informal History of a Great Baseball Club
Price: $150
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1947]. First edition. Read More about The Boston Red Sox
Price: $75
New York: Bantam, [April, 1982. First edition. Inscribed by author on half-title page " To Judy - who has great taste in books - you liked this one . Ron Luciano" Read More about The Umpire Speaks
Price: $100
New York: A.S. Barnes, [1949]. First Edition. Read More about Baseball's Greatest Teams
Price: $50
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”
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 about America's National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Development and...
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Medford [MA]: Self Published, n.d [c.1930s]. stated "Library Edition" Inscribed by author on title page " To Paul and Charlotte (the lucky ones!) from little me. (the slave) George Twombly" Read More about The All American Dropout and How to Succeed (if necessary) Without a Ph.D
Price: $75
New York: Macmillan, 1990. First edition. Read More about Mean at Work. The Craft of Baseball
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Third Edition, Revised. Early Baseball. A fascinating book on physical culture, which devotes a full chapter to the budding National Sport of baseball (pp. 185-192), containing, among other things the "Rules and Regulations Adopted by the National Association of Base Ball Players, held in..... Read More about Manual of Physical Exercises
Price: $250
New York: M.J. Ivers, 1906. Read More about Base Ball Jokes Stories & Poems
Price: $250
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 about BASEBALL TEAM OF 1912: Three photographs, each 9 3/4 x 13 inches, mounted in the original dark...
Price: $1,000
St. Louis: Allied Printing, 1939. Celebarting Baseball's Centennial. Read More about Broadside: The Sporting News . The Baseball Paper of the World---Schedule of the American,...
Price: $250
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New York: Phillips Co, 1913. This early simulation baseball board game was played by dropping the ball through the "plinko" tabs, with its landing point corresponding to a printed list of results along the top of the bottom cover: Out, Ball, Strike, Safe at First, etc. In addition, larger three..... Read More about Home Diamond. The Great National Game [board game
Price: $600
Selchow & Righter Co, circa 1920. The game is played with two players. The hitting team spines the spinner with the wooden ball and if it lands on one of the red circles the runner proceeds to the indicated base (or home run); if it lands on any of the..... Read More about Home Team Baseball Game
Price: $650
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
Price: $1,350
[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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Princeton, N.J: The Princeton University Press, 1899. With completed score sheet, showing Princeton the victor, 6-2. Read More about Official Souvenir Score Card of the Yale-Princeton Baseball Game. University Field. Saturday June...
Price: $600
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 about Photo Album of over 350 mounted photographs
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 about Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together
Price: $850
Montreal: Canadian Sporting Publishing Company 269 Sty. Catherine Street, West, [1925]. Read More about Spalding's Official Canadian Base Ball Guide
Price: $300
