Price: $750
New York: Holt., Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First edition. Inscribed on the title page: “To George Baker, Best wishes, Eliot Asinof”. Read More Item Details for Eight Men Out. The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series Add to Wish List
Item #375030
Price: $250
Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Biography of the great sportscaster, inscribed on the title page: “Signed for Ed Kubera, good luck, Red Barber August 24, 1989 Tallahassee”. Read More Item Details for Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat Add to Wish List
Item #375699
![Item #346497 Our National Game [wrapper title]. Baseball, Ed Andrews](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/346497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1780949960)
Price: $8,500
Philadelphia: Holmes & Co, 1869 [copyright date]. The plates comprise: [1] Base Bawler [a crying girl smashing a doll and drum] [2] Pitcher [a man being thrown out a window with a broken pitcher on the ground beneath him] [3] Batter [a chef with a large mixing bowl attempting to..... Read More Item Details for Our National Game [wrapper title] Add to Wish List
Item #346497
Price: $750
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 “green and yellow” (presumably the team..... Read More Item Details for Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905 Add to Wish List
Item #40050
Price: $225
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. Nice copy of this curious, touching baseball novel, source for the 1973 film starring Michael Moriarty as pitcher Henry Wiggen and Robert de Niro as catcher Bruce Pearson. Read More Item Details for Bang the Drum Slowly by Henry W. Wiggen. Certain of His Enthusiasms Restrained by … Add to Wish List
Item #376314
Price: $150
Enfield, MA: 1901. Read More Item Details for Enfield Base Ball Club of '01 Add to Wish List
Item #365747
Price: $200
Philadelphia: A. W. Auner, Song Publisher and Printer, [ca. 1870]. The song begins: "My name is O'Halloher, / I'm a man that's influential. / I mind my business, stop at home/ My wants are few and small. / Some blackguards 'tother day did come / They were full of whiskey..... Read More Item Details for Day I Played Base Ball Add to Wish List
Item #365749
Price: $450
New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co, (1846). 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 of the Pictorial..... Read More Item Details for Sanders’ Pictorial Primer: or an Introduction to “Sanders’ First Reader” Add to Wish List
Item #232320
Price: $2,500
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. 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 Spalding sporting..... Read More Item Details for America's National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball with Personal Reminiscences of Its Vicissitudes, Its Victories and Its Votaries Add to Wish List
Item #263515
Price: $300
Creston, Iowa: Gazette Print, [1887]. Read More Item Details for 2 League Games at the Base Ball Park on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 10 & 11. Creston vs. Atlantic. The Two Crack Clubs of the Southwestern League Add to Wish List
Item #351772
Price: $950
New York: November 25, 1947. A rare early stock certificate for shares of ownership in the New York Yankees. Read More Item Details for American League Baseball Club of New York, Inc. Capital Stock ... [stock certificate signed by Daniel Topping and J. Arthur Friedlund, for 900 shares issued to L. S. MacPhail, Del E. Webb and Friedlund as voting trustees] Add to Wish List
Item #378782
Price: $950
New York: February 8, 1946. A rare early stock certificate for shares of ownership in the New York Yankees. Read More Item Details for American League Baseball Club of New York, Inc. Capital Stock ... [stock certificate signed by Larry S. MacPhail and George M. Weiss, for 300 shares issued to MacPhail, Del E. Webb and J. Arthur Friedlund as voting trustees] Add to Wish List
Item #378783
Price: $2,500
Chicago: A.G. Spalding & Bros, 1886. First edition. [With] The National Agreement of Professional Base Ball Clubs. 18 pp. 12mo, Brooklyn: Eagle Job Print, 1889. Printed wrapper. Wrapper repaired, pages loose. [With] The National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues. Minutes of Meeting Which Convened in New York City, Oct..... Read More Item Details for Constitution and Playing Rules of the Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs Add to Wish List
Item #6110
Price: $750
[San Francisco]: 1899. Managed by R. D. Hunter (in the bowler hat and bow tie), the players depicted are: A. Webber, F. McGinn, F. Butler, L. Follansby, J. Hammond, W. Moskiman, C. Schmear, W. Hammond and H. Krug. Read More Item Details for Fireman's Fund Baseball Team Add to Wish List
Item #351778
Price: $4,500
Cincinnati: [October 2, 1919]. Although the pre-printed lineups are for the first game, the original owner has filled in the scorecards as per game 2, which the Reds won 4-2. White sox pitcher Lefty Williams, normally known for his control, was uncharacteristically wild during the game, an argument used by..... Read More Item Details for Golden Jubilee Cincinnati Reds Champions 1869-1919. Official Souvenir Score Card. World's Series Games. Redland Field 1919 [cover title] Add to Wish List
Item #374962
Price: $1,350
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 Item Details for Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson Add to Wish List
Item #244662
Price: $250
Philadelphia: 1884. Although the scorecard for the 1884 game is undated, the Athletics won 6-4. Read More Item Details for Kelly's Official Score Card, 1884 [scorecard for an 1884 game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Indianapolis Hoosiers, accomplished in pencil] Add to Wish List
Item #339571
Price: $300
Philadelphia: Rowley and Chew Printing House, 1884. Philadelphia, led by first baseman Harry Stovey, won 8-1, jumping out with a 4 run second inning. Read More Item Details for Official Score Card of the Athletic Base Ball Club Season of 1884 [scorecard for a September 29, 1884 game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cincinnati Red Stockings, accomplished in pencil] Add to Wish List
Item #339570
Price: $250
Philadelphia: 1886. Although the scorecard for the 1886 game is undated, the Athletics won 7-3. Read More Item Details for Official Score Card. 1886. Athletic Base Ball Club [scorecard for an 1886 game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Louisville Colonels, accomplished in pencil] Add to Wish List
Item #339573
Price: $100
Portsmouth, N. H: L.V. Newell & Co., Portrait and Landscape Photographers, No. 1 High Street, n.d. [ca. 1880?]. L.V. Newell & Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was a photographic firm active around the 1880s -- many of their photographs are in institutions, such as the US Naval Historical Center, where..... Read More Item Details for Photograph of 6 men seated, standing, and lying in front of a tent with rifles arranged in front, one seated man wearing a baseball uniform, holding a bat and ball in his left hand and a in his right Add to Wish List
Item #43894
![Item #365751 [Photograph of a baseball team]. Baseball](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365751.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775235767)
Price: $200
Np: [ca. 1900-1930]. The eleven players seated on the field with their manager standing behind them and a ball boy in the front. Althought the team is unidentified their uniforms show a W within a diamond. Read More Item Details for [Photograph of a baseball team] Add to Wish List
Item #365751
Price: $850
N.p: n.d. [1940s?]. 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 Engelberg and Schneider, Joe Louis was Dimaggio's first boxing..... Read More Item Details for Photograph of Joe Dimaggio and Joe Louis posing playfully together Add to Wish List
Item #234945
Price: $3,000
Richmond, Virginia: 1917. Virignia Union was a founding member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1912 and won the baseball championships in 1917 and 1920. Read More Item Details for [Photograph of the 1917 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship team from Virginia Union] Add to Wish List
Item #346309
Price: $250
Philadelphia: 1880s. Although the scorecard for the game is undated, the Athletics won 6-3 with leadoff homerun by Harry Stovey. Read More Item Details for [Scorecard for an undated game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Louisville Colonels, accomplished in pencil] Add to Wish List
Item #339574
Price: $3,500
[Boston]: June 20, 1864. An intriguing document from the early days of baseball, revealing that a game was played at City Point [i.e. South Boston, not Virginia] on June 17, 1864 between the Mohicans and the Lightfoots. A wonderful document from the earliest years of the game. Read More Item Details for To The President, Directors & Members of the L.F.B.C. We the members of the "Mohican Base Ball Club" beg lief [i.e. leave] to return our most sincere thanks for your kind and gentlemanly conduct shown to us during the game of Base Ball played at City Point on the 17th of June 1864 ... [manuscript] Add to Wish List
Item #325615