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Baseball 1943 – Hardbound Copy of the Commissioner’s Baseball Guide.
Lot 194. Baseball 1943 – Hardbound Copy of the Commissioner’s Baseball Guide. J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of The Sporting News, and Judge Landis, the Baseball Commissioner, didn’t especially like each other. After their feud intensified in 1942, Landis refused to allow Spink to publish the “official” baseball guide for 1943. Spink published a guide anyway, although it wasn’t labeled “official,” and Landis published his own guide, which received very limited distribution. His 736-page guide was not offered to the public. Along with information on the majors and minors, it contains a 54-page list of baseball players and other baseball men serving in the Armed Forces. The copy offered here has paper residue inside the front and back covers. Otherwise, it is ex to ex-m.
Winning Bid $45.
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