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Baseball Periodicals and Other Publications
15 Lots
 Lot 641. June 20, 1903 Sporting Life with a Composite of the Chicago Cubs on the Cover. Complete issue has photos of Tinker, Evers and Chance on the front cover, along with other members of the 1903 team. The inside is packed with baseball information, and there are interesting ads with a baseball theme. The paper is fragile, and the issue shows chips and some tearing. The composite displays nicely.
Winning Bid $248.
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 Lot 642. 1908 Harper’s Weekly Cover with William Jennings Bryan as a Baseball Player. Bryan was the Democrat’s candidate for President in 1908, and the cover of the Oct. 31 issue depicts him in a batting pose. Text below his image reads “Three Strikes and -,” no doubt referring to Bryan’s two previous unsuccessful attempts to capture the Presidency. Inside, Bryan is bludgeoned in an opinion column, which compares him to Peter Pan because of his alleged failure “to reach a state of intellectual maturity.” In November, Bryan fanned for Strike Three, losing to William Howard Taft. As a Presidential candidate, he was out. Complete ex issue with a few edge tears. Great cover!
Winning Bid $45.
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 Lot 643. October 1914 Baseball Magazine. This complete issue has an outstanding cover illustration with articles and ads inside featuring players such as Honus Wagner, Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker and Christy Mathewson. It also covers the Federal League. Ex appearance with a neatly applied strip of tape where the front cover meets the spine and some chipping and small tears.
Winning Bid $204.
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 Lot 644. 7 1920s Issues of Baseball Magazine Plus Ring Lardner, Hugh Fullerton Articles. One issue is for Feb. 1927 and the others for 1929 – Feb., April, June and Oct.-Dec. Burleigh Grimes is on the Oct. cover, and Connie Mack, Dec. The 1929 issues have player photos inside the front and back covers; they include Manush, Lyons with Thomas, Walsh with his son, Alexander, Mack, the A’s and Cubs, and Joe McCarthy. Babe Ruth’s 500th home run is the subject of an Oct. article; he is pictured in the April and Nov. issues. Lou Gehrig is shown in a cartoon in the June issue. The Nov. issue includes an article on the possibility or radio broadcasts of World Series games. The Dec. issue recaps the Series. These issues are complete and average vg. Three articles clipped from The American Magazine are by Lardner. Topics are Ty Cobb, the “greatest of ‘em all,” the Boston Braves and Lardner’s selection of an All-Star team. Fullerton, who wrote Touching Second with Johnny Evers, focuses on batting in two articles from the same magazine. In one, he identifies Honus Wagner as the greatest batter and baseball player in the world. The article contains an excellent photo of Cobb.
Winning Bid $138.
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 Lot 645. Louisville Slugger 1910 Letterhead Receipt, 1929 Famous Sluggers Booklet. The receipt, 4 ½” x 8 ¼”, is printed in blue on white and dated July 12. It says “Bought of…..J. F. Hillerich & Son” and pictures a Honus Wagner decal bat. Vg+ to ex. The 5 ½” x 8 ½” horizontal booklet, Famous Sluggers of 1929 with Tips on Batting, contains 30 pages and pictures such stars as Foxx, Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Hornsby and others. Each player is pictured with his store model bat. The booklet also contains 1929 batting statistics and various historical batting records.
Winning Bid $92.
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 Lot 646. 1939, 1949 Life Magazines, Other Publications with Joe DiMaggio Covers. 1. May 1, 1939 Life, g cover, ex inside, classic DiMaggio image. 2. Aug. 1, 1949 Life, vg cover, ex pages. 3. June 1991 Beckett Baseball Card Monthly, two copies, both nm with DiMaggio with Mantle on the cover. 4. March 10-16, 1999 Baseball Weekly, vg cover, ex pages. 5. Summer 2001 Primo, ex cover, nm pages. 6. March 14, 1999 New York Times partial sports section, vg. 7. 11” x 14” black and white photo. 8. 3 ¾” x 5 ¾” framed card.
Winning Bid $35.
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 Lot 647. 1950s Issues of Sport, Sport’s Illustrated Including SI’s Baseball Issues. The SI annual baseball issues are for 1956 vg and 1958 vg-ex. Duke Snider is on the cover of the June, 27, 1955 issue, vg+ to ex. The issues of Sport feature covers with: Sept. 1955, Snider, vg. Feb. 1959, Lew Burdette, other athletes; the largest photo is of Rafer Johnson, ex+. April 1959, Rocky Colavito, stains along two edges, otherwise ex with a clean image of Colavito. Also, Yogi Berra on the cover of the 1955 edition of Who’s Who in the Big Leagues, vg.
Winning Bid $61.
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 Lot 648. 11 Hardbound Issues of The Sporting News Baseball Dope Book, 1963-77. Includes 1963, 1965-67, 1969, 1971-73, 1975-77. These books contain batting averages by team for the preceding season, rosters for the current year, lifetime batting averages, stadium dimensions, All-Star starting lineups for each year and various other information, typically in 200-250 pages. Ten copies have similar covers, with date in gold lettering and either “The Dope Book,” “Official Baseball Dope Book” or “Baseball Dope Book” on the cover and spine. One copy has a plain front cover and says “The Sporting News Dope Book 1971” on the spine. These outer covers average ex-m, while the contents, including the original covers, average nm.
Minimum Bid $40.
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 Lot 649. 5 Publications Covering the History of Baseball in Cincinnati. The Spring 1969 issue of The Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin has an article titled “The Team That Couldn’t Be Beat: the Red Stockings of 1869.” The Summer 1976 issue has a drawing of Crosley Field on the cover and a picture of Riverfront Stadium inside. The July 1961 Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Bulletin also has an article on the Red Stockings, and the March-April 1999 Timeline from the Ohio Historical Society features Johnny Vander Meer. The Summer 1988 issue of Queen City Heritage is devoted entirely to the Red Stockings and Cincinnati Reds. Ex-m.
Winning Bid $25.
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 Lot 650. 16 Street and Smith Baseball Yearbooks, 12 Baseball Hall of Fame Yearbooks. The Street and Smith annuals are for 1971, 1973, 1975-81, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1997. Vg to ex with most vg+ to ex. The Hall of Fame yearbooks, which focus on the players inducted that year, include a photo and brief biography of each inductee. They are for 1981, 1983-85, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994-96 and 1997 (2 copies). Average ex-m.
Winning Bid $45.
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 Lot 651. 21 Issues of Spitball (Issues 1-3), Plus Cooperstown Review, SABR Review of Books. Take a walk on baseball’s literary side with these publications. Spanning 1981-95, Spitball contains poems, short stories, essays, interviews, other non-fiction and book reviews. Later issues include a column on baseball memorabilia. The Summer 1988 issue celebrates the Centennial of “Casey at the Bat,” including a poem by W. P. Kinsella. This collection includes the first three issues, published in 1981 and 1982, which typically are missing from collections of this periodical. Six issues are from the 1980s. Issue #1 has a small tape-residue mark on the cover. Otherwise, the issues are ex or better. The Cooperstown Review debuted in 1993, and the first two issues are here. These publications, “from the editors of The SABR Review,” contain an abundance of book reviews. Issue #2 contains an interview with Ken Burns. Ex. The first five issues of The SABR Review of Books also are here. They contain book reviews and original articles. Ex-m. Twenty-eight publications.
Winning Bid $55.
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 Lot 652. Baseball Books, Programs, Periodicals, The Nolan Ryan Fitness Guide, Etc. 1. Ryan’s 28-page spiral-bound publication is a product of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Nm-m. Three hardbound books: 2. The Way It Is, Curt Flood, 1971 first edition, ex-library, vg, clean copy. 3. Willie Mays, John Grabowski, 1990 kid’s book, ex, no dj. 4. Total Baseball, John Thorn, 1999, ex-library, vg. 5. 1965 Milwaukee program, generic, g-vg. 6. 1971 Tigers program, early in Billy Martin’s first season as manager, g-vg, no scorecard. World Series Programs: 7. 1985 Budweiser generic, vg. 8. 1993, Toronto vs. Phils, 9-10. 2003, Marlins vs. Yankees (2), one nm, one vg-ex. Also: 11-12. Two 2002 SI special Ted Williams issues, nm. 13. Major League Baseball Latino Legends Team, 2005 Chevrolet booklet,
Winning Bid $25.
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 Lot 654. 12 SABR City, State Baseball Histories – Pittsburgh, Chicago, Florida, Etc. The Society for American Baseball Research produced all 12 of these Baseball in … publications for its Annual Conventions: Chicago 1986, Cleveland 1990, St. Louis 1992, Pittsburgh 1995, Kansas City 1996, Louisville 1997, San Francisco (Northern California) 1998, West Palm Beach (Florida) 2000, Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2001, Boston (New England and Eastern Canada) 2002, Cincinnati 2004, and Toronto 2005. Each paperback in magazine format contains 30-100+ pages of photos, other illustrations and text. Ex-m.
Winning Bid $168.
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