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Rare Copy of 1888 Sketches of the New York and Brooklyn Base Ball Clubs.
Lot 134. Rare Copy of 1888 Sketches of the New York and Brooklyn Base Ball Clubs. June Rankin wrote the text and Richard K. Fox published this 64-page softcover publication that covers the Giants of the National League and the Trolley Dodgers of the American Association. Fox also published the Police Gazette. In 1888, New York captured the N.L. pennant, and Brooklyn finished second behind St. Louis in the American Association. The book has a woodcut print of an early baseball game on the brown front cover. The covers are almost separated from the pages and show multiple chips; there is tape along the spine. Inside, the book presents the 1888 N.L. and AA schedules and an 11-page history of baseball beginning in the 1840s. The Giants are then represented by woodcut photos and biographies of manager Jim Murtrie and 19 players, including John Ward, Tim Keefe, Mickey Welch, Buck Ewing, Roger Connor and James O’Rourke. Seventeen members of the Brooklyn club are featured, including Bob Carruthers, Dave Orr and Dave Foutz. The bottom outside corners of the first 30 pages have been either chipped or turned up (creased). The text is unaffected, and the pages otherwise are generally clean and attractive. Seldom seen and well worth our
Winning Bid $700.
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