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19th Century Baseball & Other Sports
11 Lots
 Lot 182. 1889 Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia Including Base Ball. Focusing on Al Spalding’s 1889 baseball good will tour of four continents, this 711-page book contains more than 500 pages of baseball history, including 300 pages by Chicago journalist Henry Clay Palmer on the tour itself. It also has a three-page preface by Henry Chadwick, generally regarded as the “father of baseball.” Extremely interesting read, but also valuable for its hundreds of illustrations. It contains a dozen full-page b&w photos of Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis and Washington Ball Clubs. Frontispiece is an amazing full-page chromolithograph of the Chicago and All American Team Exhibition Game at the Crystal Palace Grounds in London. Published by Hubbard Brothers, 1889, it has a g-vg cover with ex pages. The cover is somewhat loose but attached, and there is some spotting and wear to the front cover, and staining to the back. Sixteen pages are missing, including two of the chromolithographs. It remains an excellent baseball reference, and the showstopper is still intact across from the title page. We’ve seen this book offered with similar problems for $1,500. It’s a seminal book that’s exceedingly hard to findthese days.
Winning Bid $357.
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