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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
(BASEBALL)
1876.
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First edition thus, the first hardcover edition (first book printing was the extremely scarce 1901 pamphlet). Paper covered boards decorated in color with a gilt edged baseball bat tied about with black ribbon, gilt lettering. Classic woodblock illustrations. The most recognized American poem, "Casey" first appeared in a San Francisco newspaper in 1888 as a featured piece of humorous doggerel. Its ascension to immortal status was due primarily to actor and toastmaster DeWolf Hopper, who began reciting it at dinners and other functions, as well as on the vaudeville stage, around the turn of the century. Hopper claimed in his autobiography to have performed "Casey" over 100, 000 times in his career. This copy is a tight, fresh example, virtually unworn except for the most minor rubbing at the tips.
Casey At The Bat
Thayer, Phineas (Ernest L.)
Chicago: McClurg, 1912.
Price: $2,800.00
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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.
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Signed Contract for the 1952-53 Season with the Marianao Baseball Club
McDuffie, Terris (Negro League pitcher)
Price: $1,800.00
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Black cloth lettered and decorated in white with silhouette of original 1869 Red Stocking player front panel. 277 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates of rare images of teams, ball parks, executives and players. The second edition, following the subscription edition of 500 copies published in the previous year and equally rare. After outlining early, pre-professional baseball in and around Cincinnati, this work explores the building and dominance of the first openly professional team, the Red Stocking Base Ball Club, a team so powerful that it went undefeated from late 1868, through the entire 1869 season, and half of the following season. Led by one of the Father's of Baseball, manager and center fielder Harry Wright and his brother, star shortstop George Wright, this legendary group rolled over all opposition until losing an extra inning game to the Brooklyn Atlantics in June, 1870. Final section covers Cincinnati ball from 1876 to 1908. A cornerstone of any serious baseball library. This a tight copy despite rubbing to the cloth leaving white cover decoration about 70% present and effacing the spine lettering.
Base Ball In Cincinnati
Ellard, Harry
Cincinnati: Privately Printed, 1908.
Price: $1,500.00
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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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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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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.
Price: $600.00
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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.
Price: $525.00
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Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia. Comprising History, Characteristics, Sketches of Famous Leaders, Organization and Great Contests of Baseball, Cricket, Football, La Crosse, Tennis, Rowing, and Cycling. Also Including the Famous "Around t
Palmer, Harry Clay
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1889.
Price: $525.00
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Lime green cloth lettered in black and with silhouette of Babe Ruth swinging the bat. 240 pp. plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece illustration. Generic baseball-themed boy's novel "written" by Babe Ruth and published after his historic first year with the New York Yankees when he astounded the baseball world by clubbing 49 home runs. Very good,previous owner's pencil signature front free endpaper. In a seriously flawed example of the very scarce original pictorial dust jacket featuring a color tinted image of Ruth in Yankee pinstripes in follow-through batting pose and a small oval portrait of the Bambino on the spine. The jacket is heavily chipped about the edges and corners, the front flap is present but detached, rear flap is missing, some pencil marks to the front and rear panel.
The Home-Run King or, How Pep Pindar Won His Title
Ruth, Babe
New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.
Price: $475.00
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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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First edition, second state binding of buff colored cloth lettered in black and with small design of ball player inside black lined square on front board. 247 pp. The classic, still hilarious collection of "letters home" by self-inflated baseball rookie Jack Keefe who breaks in with Comisky's Chicago White Sox. A tight copy with light even soiling to the covers and some spotting to the spine strip, small stain in the lower corner margins of pp. 72 and 73. Small previous ownership signature. top edge of first blank. Small newspaper cutting of the comic strip Jack Keefe affixed to the second blank. Lacking the exceedingly scarce dust jacket.
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
Lardner, Ring
NY: George H. Doran, 1916.
Price: $325.00
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History of Baseball in California and Pacific Coast Leagues 1847-1938: Memories and Musings of an Old Time Baseball Player
LANGE, FRED W.
Oakland: Privately Printed, 1938.
Price: $300.00
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Who's Who in Major League Baseball
Johnson, Harold ("Speed")
Chicago: Buxton Publishing Co., 1933.
Price: $275.00
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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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Great Negro Baseball Stars and How They Made The Major Leagues
YOUNG, A.S. "Doc"
NY: A.S. Barnes, 1953.
Price: $225.00
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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)
Price: $200.00
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Don't Knock The Rock: The Rocky Colavito Story
Cobbledick, Gordon
Cleveland: World, 1966.
Price: $180.00
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