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1889 "Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia" Including Baseball.
Lot 10. 1889 "Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia" Including Baseball. Focusing on Al Spalding’s 1889 baseball goodwill 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 reading, 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. Four show-stopping “illuminated” (color) plates also are present. Hubbard Brothers published the book in 1889. The covers of this copy are soiled, and they have been reinforced with tape on the inside. The color image of a baseball game in London at the front of the book has been glued to a page, and it shows significant stains. Otherwise, the book is complete, and the interior has a vg+ to ex appearance.
Winning Bid $92.
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