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The Great Match and Other Matches (No Name Series)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877.
Price: $550.00
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The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games (contains First Color Book Illustration of a Baseball Game)
(BASEBALL)
NY: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864.
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Single sheet, folded once, printed on both sides, size aprox. 9" by 10" (when unfolded). Extremely rare single sheet scorecard from one of the first baseball games played in the history of the National League during its inaugural season of 1876. The game was played in Chicago on May 20, 1876, (less than a month after the league's first game), between the Chicago and St. Louis clubs and featured A.G. Spalding pitching for the Chicago club. Also in the line-up for Chicago were Cap Anson, Cal McVey and Ross Barnes. The St. Louis club featured Lipman Pike, Denny Mack, Joe Clapp and George Bradley. The line-ups are pre-printed with the name of the player and his position. (Chicago won the game 6-3). The game is scored in pencil. Numerous advertisements for various businesses such as tobacconists, sporting goods, billiard halls, a tailor, a photographer and a beer saloon are printed on the sheet. Near fine condition. One of the earliest known scorecards for a professional game and, so far as we are aware, the earliest National League scorecard ever offered for sale.
1876 Scorecard from the First Year of the National League, for a Game Between Chicago and St. Louis
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1876.
Price: $4,500.00
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Very rare. One page, partially printed document on "Haymaker Base Ball Club" letterhead, aprox. 5x7". Dated at Troy, N.Y., Oct. 19, 1871 and completed in ink. Original document from the Haymaker Base Ball Club of Troy, New York informing a shareholder of a meeting to be held at "Calder's Office" , 8PM, Friday, October 20th (1871) with notation at bottom "Very important". Traditionally, ball club stockholder meetings would be held (as in this case) shortly after the end of the playing season for the purpose of dividing profits (or, in the not unusual case of a loss for the year, making assessments of members) and paying off the players. The Haymaker Club of Troy was one of the founding members of baseball's first professional league, The National Association, which functioned from 1871 through 1875. The NA was not a strong league, plagued by weak teams, loose discipline and contract-jumping players and was replaced by the still-extant National League in 1876. Troy entered the National League in 1879 and in 1883 transferred the franchise to New York City where it became known as the Giants. Among the notable players to perform for both the Haymakers and the Giants were four future Hall of Famers---Roger Connor, Mickey Welch, Tim Keefe and Buck Ewing. Light mailing folds but otherwise a fine, clean piece. Material from the National Association is exceedingly rare.
1871 Troy "Haymakers" BaseBall Club Document from the First Year of the National Association (the First Professional Baseball League)
(BASEBALL)
Troy, NY: 1871.
Price: $2,500.00
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Reach American League BaseBall Guide for 1917 (Personal Copy of Hall of Famer Bill Veeck)
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Phila: A.J. Reach, 1917.
Price: $175.00
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Reach American League BaseBall Guide for 1936 (Bill Veeck's Personal Copy)
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Phila: A.J. Reach, 1936.
Price: $100.00
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Group of Ephemera from the High School Athletic Career of Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Doby, First Black Player in the American League
(Baseball) (Doby, Larry)
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Textured grey cloth boldly lettered in red. 305 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Yearbook for Pasadena Junior College for 1938. Features (and pictures) baseball Hall of Famer and integrationist Jackie Robinson as a member of all four of the varsity sports teams---baseball, football, basketball and track and field. Very good or somewhat better, shallow tearing to the cloth at the foot of the spine. Numerous typical yearbook-like signatures and sentiments (unfortunately none by Robinson), mostly on the endpapers but also here and there in the interior. Otherwise, interior is bright and clean. Robinson was named the Southern California region's Most Valuable Player in baseball during this 1938 season. He went on to star at UCLA, played briefly in the Negro Leagues and was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946. He played for their Montreal minor league team in 1946 and in 1947 was promoted to the major league squad, thereby breaking the color barrier that had been in place in major league baseball since the 19th century. He retired from baseball after the 1956 season, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, and died in 1972.
Pasadena Junior College Yearbook (The Pasadena Campus) for 1938 featuring Jackie Robinson on the Varsity Baseball, Football, Basketball and Track Teams
(Robinson, Jackie)
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Junior College, 1938.
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Typed Letter Signed 1920 on St. Louis Cardinals Letterhead
(Robinson, Jackie) Rickey, Branch
1920.
Price: $450.00
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Typed Letter Signed By Branch Rickey Regarding Sale of His Shares in the Brooklyn Dodgers 1950
(Robinson, Jackie) Rickey, Branch
1950.
Price: $1,100.00
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Now Wait A Minute, Casey!
ALLEN, MAURY
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
Price: $10.00
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Guide To Baseball Literature
Anton, Grobani
NMansfield Centre, CT: Martino Pub, 2002.
Price: $68.50
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Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain
Appel, Marty
Doubleday, 2009.
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First edition. Contemporary biography of the Hall of Fame owner of the Chicago White Sox. Comiskey, a player of some repute in the 1880s and 90s, became one of the game's leading magnates and was influential in the formation of the American League. Ironically, this biography was published mere months before the downfall and disgraceof his team when eight players were banned forever from baseball for consiring to throw the 1919 World Series. Despite the laudatory tone of this biography, Comiskey's cheapness and ill-use of his players, such as Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Chic Gandil and Swede Risberg, are thought to be a prime cause of the Series fix. Illustrated with photos. This is a tight, bright, clean copy (far better than usually found) whose only fault is a pair of light moisture spots on the spine. Lacking the rare dust jacket.
Commy
AXELSON, G. W.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1919.
Price: $250.00
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First edition. Illustrated with photos. Contemporary biography of the legendary owner of the Chicago White Sox and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Comiskey, a player of some repute in the 1880s and 90s, became one of the game's leading magnates and was influential in the formation of the American League. Ironically, this biography was published mere months before the downfall and disgrace of his team, eight of whose players (seven if you exonerate Buck Weaver) conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. Despite the laudatory tone of this biography, Comisky's cheapness and ill-use of his players, such as Shoeless Joe Jackson and Eddie Cicotte are thought to be a prime cause of the Series fix. A tight, generally fine copy with minimal bumping at the spine corners, previous ownership stamp front free endpaper. In the very scarce pictorial dust jacket, chipping to the edges and with a long triangular chip out of the top portion of the front panel affecting the title lettering, wear at the tips.
Commy: The Life Story of the Grand Old Roman of Baseball, Charles A. Comisky (IN SCARCE DUST JACKET)
Axelson, G.W.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1919.
Price: $675.00
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Ty Cobb: His Tumultuous Life and Times
Bak, Richard
Dallas: Taylor Pub, 1994.
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First edition. Blue-grey cloth lettered and decorated in white with design of an old-time batter and catcher in full gear. 227 pps. plus publisher's ads. Four 3-color plates by Howard Heath. Juvenile tale of baseball and schooldays, one of Barbour's less often seen titles. Very good, spine somewhat rubbed and with modest wear at tips; both hinges starting and with some tidemarking to outer edges of some pages. A presentable example.
Finkler's Field: A Story of School and Baseball
Barbour, Ralph Henry
NY: D.Appleton-Century, 1911.
Price: $35.00
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Detroit Is My Own Home Town
Bingay, Malcolm W.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1946.
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Brittle Innings
BISHOP, MICHAEL
NY: Bantam, 1994.
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Baseball Legends: Roberto Clemente
BJARKMAN, Peter C.
NY: Chelsea, 1991.
Price: $16.00
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