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Adams, D. L., et al. (1854) The New York Baseball Rules. The Book of American Pastimes. New York: 346-348. ({{{13}}})
Adams, Roger (unpublished) Nestor of Ball Players. ({{{13}}})
read online: This is a facsimile of an 8- page, typed account to the baseball life of Doc Adams written by his son in 1939, held in the Chadwick scrapbooks, and supplied to Protoball 12/29/2009 by Bill Ryczek.
Adelman, M. A. (1986) A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870. University of Illinois Press. ({{{13}}})
Adelman, M. A. (1980) "The First Baseball Game, the Newspaper References to Baseball, and the New York Club." Journal of Sport History. 7(Winter): 132-135. ({{{13}}})
Agen, M. (1927) "Baseball Known in Old World Under Various Names." Baseball. 38: 521. ({{{13}}})
Akin, William () West Virginia Baseball:A History, 1865-2000. Jefferson NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: Extent of coverage not known 11/2013.
Alexander, C. (1991) Our Game: An American Baseball History. Henry Holt. ({{{13}}})
Altherr, T. L. (2008) "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games." Base Ball. 2(1): 29-43. ({{{13}}})
Altherr, Thomas (2009) "Base is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's base from the 13th to 20th Centuries." Base Ball. 3(1): 67-79. ({{{13}}})
Altherr, Thomas (2011) "1841 -- Barn Ball." Base Ball. 5(1): 85 - 88. ({{{13}}})
Altherr, Thomas (2011) "1850 -- Southern Ball-Games." Base Ball. 5(1): 103 - 105. ({{{13}}})
Altherr, Thomas L. (1999) There is Nothing Now Heard of, in our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball. Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999. McFarland and Company: 187 - 213. ({{{13}}})
Alvarez, M. (1990) The Old Ball Game. Redefinition. ({{{13}}})
Anderson, Will (1992) Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine?. Yes. Will Anderson. ({{{13}}})
Anon (1926) "The Origin of Baseball." Youth's Companion. 100: 686. ({{{13}}})
Anon (1984) Cricket: History of the Game, Equipment, .... St. Peters, Australia, Gregory's Publishing Company. ({{{13}}})
Anon () Juab County (UT) Information for Students. ({{{13}}})
read online: This site describes a 5-hour game played by teams of nine in October 1875. The players had send to New York for a rule book, but played before the book arrived. The score of the game was 87-17. The winning team was to receive a "quarter of beef." This game was said to have been the first played in Utah, and likely the first west of the Mississippi. No sources for the account are given.
Anon (2009) History of Baseball in Portland OR. ({{{13}}})
read online: An East Portland club that formed in May 1866 was the first club in the Pacific NW. The narrative then skips to the first pro team in 1883.
Anon. (1937) The MCC 1787 - 1937. London, The Times Publishing Company. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1889) Origin of the National Game of Baseball. Mercury Sporting Guide for 1889 Containing the History and Records of Baseball. 1-5. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1912) "Who Started Baseball? A Word on the Origins of the National Game." Baseball. 8: 71-72. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1859) Base Ball - Who Plays the Genuine Game?. Buffalo Morning Express. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1887) "Base Ball Reminiscences: Part I - The Evolution of Base Ball." National Daily Base Ball Gazette. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1870) "Base-Ball as a Pastime and as a Business." Spirit of the Times. 23: 235. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1884) Baseball: Its Rise and Progress. The New York Clipper Annual. New York Clipper: 29-36. ({{{13}}})
Anon. (1887) The Game of Cricket. Sonnenschein. ({{{13}}})
Anson, A. C. (1900) A Ball Player’s Career. Chicago, Era Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by Amereon, 1993.
Antonelli, Johnny (2012) Johnny Antonelli: A Baseball Memoir. RIT Press. ({{{13}}})
Arcidiacono, David (2010) Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut. Jefferson NC, McFarland: 260. ({{{13}}})
read online: About 4 pages -- 18 through 21 -- appear to cover the period from the first clubs (1858) to the Civil War.
Arcidiacono, David (2003) Grace, Grit, and Growling: The Hartford Dark Blues Base Ball Club, 1874-1877. David Arcidiacono. ({{{13}}})
read online: The initial 5 pages describe the runup to the foundation of the Dark Blues.
Arcidiacono, David () Middleton's Seaason in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Profefssional Baseball TeamCountry=US. David Arcidiacono. ({{{13}}})
read online: This information appears in it front matter of the author's 2003 book on the Hartford Dark Blues
Arlott, J. a. T., F. (1977) Arlott and Trueman on Cricket. London, British Broadcasting Company. ({{{13}}})
Astifan, P. (1990) "Baseball in the 19th Century." Rochester History. 52(3): 2-23. ({{{13}}})
Astifan, Priscilla (2011) "1825 -- Thurlow Weed and the Growth of Baseball in Rochester, New York." Base Ball. 5(1): 65 - 68. ({{{13}}})
Astifan, Priscilla and Larry McCray (2008) "'Old Fashioned Base Ball' in Western New York, 1825-1860." Base Ball. 2(2): 26-34. ({{{13}}})
Astor, G. (1988) The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book. Prentice Hall. ({{{13}}})
Atkinson, F. (1963) "'Knur and Spell' and Allied Games." Folk Life. 1: 43-65. ({{{13}}})
Bailey, Bob (1990) Draft Chapter on Beginnings of Ballplaying in KY. ({{{13}}})
read online: This is a draft chapter 1 for a project that was not realized. I have misfiled it, but it will pop up. It cites a finding by Dean Sullivan that stoolball and cricket were well-established in Louisville in about 1850.
Bailey, Bob (1999) Chapter 1: Beginnings. From Amateur Teams of Disgrace in the National League. unpublished: 15. ({{{13}}})
read online: Pages 1-8 of this chapter cover ballplaying prior to the founding of Louisville National League in 1876.
Baker, W. J. (1982) Sports in the Western World. Totowa, NJ, Rowman and Littlefield. ({{{13}}})
Barbour, R. H. (1904) The Book of School and College Sports. New York, D. Appleton and Company. ({{{13}}})
Barrett, P. V. (1910) "Baseball in the Seventeenth Century." Baseball. 5(75-76). ({{{13}}})
Bartlett, A. (1951) Baseball and Mr. Spalding: The History and Romance of Baseball. Farrar, Straus and Young. ({{{13}}})
Barty-King, H. (1979) Quilt Winders and Pod Shavers; the History of Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacture. London, Macdonald and James. ({{{13}}})
Baumer, Jim (2005) When Towns Had Teams. Yes. River Vision Press. ({{{13}}})
Bene, D. D. (1898) Fifty Years Reminiscences of Scottish Cricket. Glasgow. ({{{13}}})
Benson, M. (1989) Ballparks of North America: 1845 to Present. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Berenbak, Adam (2014) "Henderson, Cartwright, and the 1953 US Congress." The Baseball Research Journal. 43(2 (Fall 2014)): SABR: 34-35. ({{{13}}})
read online: This short article traces the idea that Robert Henderson was officially commended by Congress as showing that Alexander Cartwright, not Abner Doubleday, invented baseball. The author reports that no such commendation can be found.
Betts, J. R. (1974) America’s Sporting Heritage: 1850-1950. Addison Wesley. ({{{13}}})
Betts, J. R. (1971) "Home Front, Battle Field, and Sport During the Civil War." Research Quarterly. 42. ({{{13}}})
Betts, J. R. (1952) Organized Sport in Industrial America. University of Michigan Dissertation Services. ({{{13}}})
Biewala, Michael (2003) Bridgeport Baseball. Aarcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been assessed. It is presented as a pictorial history.
Birdsall, R. R. (1917) The Birthplace of Base Ball. The Story of Cooperstown. Cooperstown, NY, The Arthur Christ Co: 247-257. ({{{13}}})
Birley, D. (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum Press. ({{{13}}})
Blaine, D. P. (1840) An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. London, A. Stottswoods. ({{{13}}})
Blancke, C. (1891) "Cricket in America." Harper's Weekly. 35: 725. ({{{13}}})
Block, D. (2005) Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game. University of Nebraska Press. ({{{13}}})
Block, D. (2008) "A Peek into the Pocket-Book." Base Ball. 2(1): 17-28. ({{{13}}})
Block, David (2019) Pastime Lost:The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball. Yes. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press: 298. ({{{13}}})
Blofield, H. (2001) Cricket and All That; An Irreverent History. Coronet. ({{{13}}})
Bohn, Terry (2014) "'Many Exciting Chases After the Ball: 19th Century Base Ball in Bismarck, Dakota Territory'." The Baseball Research Journal. 43(1): 48-53. ({{{13}}})
Bonner, M. G. (1930) "The Birth of Baseball." St. Nicholas. 57(12): 931-932. ({{{13}}})
Bouchier, N. B. (2003) Baseball, Boosters, and the Amateur Not-for-Profit Approach to Community Sport. For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town. Ontario, McGill-Queens University Press: 100. ({{{13}}})
Bouchier, N. B., and R. K. Barney (1988) "A Critical Examination of a Source on Early Ontario Baseball: The Reminiscence of Adam E. Ford." Journal of Sport History. 15(1): 75-90. ({{{13}}})
Bourke, John (??) US Infantry Faces Cavalry in WY in 1876. ({{{13}}})
read online: Our lead on this sketchy report is in a 9/10/2013 email from Joel Dinda.
Bowen, R. (1970) Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World. Eyre and Spottiswoode. ({{{13}}})
Bowman, J. S., and Joel Zoss (2004) Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball. University of Nebraska Press. ({{{13}}})
Bowman, J. S., and Joel Zoss (1986) The Pictorial History of Baseball. New York, Gallery Books. ({{{13}}})
Brasch, R. (1970) How Did Sports Begin? A Look at the Origins of Man at Play. New York, David McKay Company. ({{{13}}})
Brayshaw, I. (1985) The ABC of Cricket: The History, The Laws, a Glossary of Terms. Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Company. ({{{13}}})
Bready, J. (1998) Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years. Johns Hopkins University Press: 230. ({{{13}}})
read online: Chapter 1, "The Beginnings," pages 3 - 14, covers the first clubs and the 1860s.
Brewster, P. G. (1947) "Games and Sports in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature." Western Folklore. 6(2): 143-156. ({{{13}}})
Brewster, P. G. (1953) American Nonsinging Games. University of Oklahoma Press. ({{{13}}})
Brodribb, G. (1995) Next Man In: A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs. Souvenir Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: revision of the 1952 edition
Brooke, R., and Peter Matthews (1988) Guiness Cricket Firsts. Guiness Books. ({{{13}}})
Brookes, C. (1978) English Cricket: The Game and its Players Through the Ages. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ({{{13}}})
Brown, Randall (2011) "1837 -- William Wheaton and the Evolution of the New York Game." Base Ball. 5(1): 81 - 84. ({{{13}}})
Bryan Curtis (2013) The Baseball Archaeologist. In Search of Baseball's Holy Grail: How One Man is Re-writing the History of the Game -- One Diary at a Time. Grantland (ESPN Internet Ventures). ({{{13}}})
read online: Published September 18, 2013.
Burk, R. F. (1994) Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920. University of North Carolina Press. ({{{13}}})
Burke, Bob, et. al. (1999) Glory Days of Summer; the History of Baseball in Oklahoma.. ({{{13}}})
read online: This 470-page book evidently traces the OK careers of ballplayers. The EBay offeror did not mention that it covers earliest play there.
Burnett, J. (2000) Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland Before 1860. East Linton, Scotland, Tuckwell Press. ({{{13}}})
Butler, S. H. (1946) A Concise History of Cricket. Cricket Book Society. ({{{13}}})
Camp, W. (1889) "Base-Ball for the Spectator." The Century. 38: 831-838. ({{{13}}})
Camp, W. (1910) "The American National Game: Professional and College Base-Ball in the Making." Century. 79: 936-948. ({{{13}}})
Cardus, N. (1930) Cricket (Cardus). London, Longmans Green and Co. ({{{13}}})
Carroll, J. M. (1989) "The Doubleday Myth and Texas Baseball." Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 42: 596-612. ({{{13}}})
read online: This source has not been procured for evaluation.
Casey, H. J. (1912) "The History of Baseball: The Spectacular Career of America’s Foremost Game." Baseball Magazine. 8: 21 ff. ({{{13}}})
Casway, J. (1992) "At The Old Ball Game." Temple Review. ({{{13}}})
Casway, J. (2007) "Octavius Catto and the Pythians of Philadelphia." Pennsylvania Legacies. 7(1): 5-9. ({{{13}}})
Ceresi, Frank, and C. McMains (TBD) "Early Baseball in Wahington, DCCountry=US." Baseball Reseach JournaL: 19-25. ({{{13}}})
read online: Identifying information to be recovered
Chadwick, A. (1995) Illustrated History of Baseball. Chartwell Books. ({{{13}}})
Chadwick, H. (1867) The Ball Players' Chronicle. Thompson & Pearson. ({{{13}}})
read online: http://www.amazon.com/Sept-19-1867-Ball-Players-Chronicle/dp/B0039C4FM0 also New England Base Ball Players Gazette.
Chadwick, H. (1867) "The Ancient History of Base Ball." Ball Player’s Chronicle: 4. ({{{13}}})
Chadwick, H. (1868) American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes. New York: 2. ({{{13}}})
read online: published in book form, 1996
Chadwick, H. (1868) 'Balls Days' in the Year AD 1858. The Game of Base Ball. Columbia, SC, Camden House: 178-181. ({{{13}}})
Chadwick, H. (1868) The Game of Baseball: How to Learn It, How to Play It, How to Teach It, with Sketches of Noted Players. New York, George Munro. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1983
Chadwick, H. () Notebooks. ({{{13}}})
Chadwick, H. (1881) A Plea for Base-Ball. New York Times: 5. ({{{13}}})
Charlton, J. (1991) The Baseball Chronology. MacMillan. ({{{13}}})
Christiano, Gregory (2013) "Baseball in the Bronx, Before the Yankees." The Bronx County Historical Journal. 50(Spring/Fall 2013): Baltimore, PublishAmerica: 16-31. ({{{13}}})
Christopherson, Jason (2003) Baseball in Eau Claire (Pictoral History). Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has no been examined as of 11/2013.
Church, S. R. (1902) Base Ball, 1845-1871. San Francisco. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974
Clark, J. (2003) A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press. ({{{13}}})
Cleaver, J. D. (1965) Heritage of a National Game: Social Baseball 1845-1875. State University of New York Press. ({{{13}}})
Collection, E. C. C. (2000) Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from its Beginning. Castle Books. ({{{13}}})
Collins, T., et al. (2005) Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports. Routledge. ({{{13}}})
Couzens, G. S. (1980) A Baseball Album. New York, Lippincott and Crowell. ({{{13}}})
Crane, S. (1997) The Men Who Invented Shortstop. The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball. Galahad Books, New York: 447-452. ({{{13}}})
read online: originally published in 1985 or 1987
Crockett, D. S. (1961) "Sports and Recreational Practices of Union and Confederate Soldiers." Research Quarterly. 32: 335-347. ({{{13}}})
Crosby, J. (1951) "Ode to the Baseball Season." Saturday Review. 35: 46. ({{{13}}})
Culin, S. (1891) "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." Journal of American Folklore. 4: 231-233. ({{{13}}})
Cummings, C. (1997) How I Pitched the First Curve. The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball. New York, Galahad Books: 468-470. ({{{13}}})
read online: first published in 1985 or 1987. J. Thorn, editor
Cvornyek, R. L. (2003) Baseball in Newark: Images of Baseball. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
Daniel, W. H. (1979) "The Rage in the Hill City: The Beginnings of Baseball in Lynchburg." Virginia Cavalcade. 28: 186-191. ({{{13}}})
Daniel, W. Harrison (2003) Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game. 1884-2000. Jefferson NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: A snippet view of this book indicates that an initial chapter of at least 12 pages covers local base ball prior to 1884.
Daniels, G. P. (1845) Boy’s and Girl’s Book of Sports. Providence, Geo. Daniels. ({{{13}}})
Danielson, M. N. (1997) Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis. Princeton University Press. ({{{13}}})
Danzig, A., and Joe Reichler (1959) Baseball: Its Great Players, Teams, and Managers. Prentice-Hall. ({{{13}}})
DeClerico, J. M., and Barry J. Pavelec (1991) The Jersey Game: The History of Modern Baseball from Its Birth to the Big Leagues in the Garden State. Rutgers University Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: Chapters 1 and 2, pages 1-39, cover the pre-professional era in NJ
Derenbecker, Sandy () Email messasge, 2005 --Pre-Major Leaguers in LouisianaCountry=US. ({{{13}}})
read online: In May 2005, Sandy mentioned that she was trying to trace members of 1859 New Orleans clubs, and might later compile a spreadsheet on her findings.
Devine, C. (2003) Harry Wright: The Father of Professional Baseball. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Dewey, D. (2004) The Tenth Man: The Fan in Baseball History. New York, Carroll and Graf. ({{{13}}})
Dick, Ed. (1864) The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements. Dick and Fitzgerald. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000
Doubleday, A. (1939) A Century of Baseball. Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Printing Company. ({{{13}}})
Dubois, Alexander (2018) "Litchfield and the Old Connecticut Game of Wicket." Litchfield Historical Journal. ({{{13}}})
Dulles, F. R. (1940) America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation 1607-1940Country=. New York, Appleton-Century. ({{{13}}})
Dunning, E., and Kenneth Sheard (1979) Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players. Oxford, Martin Robinson. ({{{13}}})
Durant, J. (1959) The Story of Baseball in Words and Pictures. New York, Hastings House. ({{{13}}})
read online: first edition was 1947
Durso, J. (1986) Baseball and the American Dream. The Sporting News. ({{{13}}})
Dyte, David (2011) "1845 -- Baseball in Brooklyn, 1845 - 1870." Base Ball. 5(1): 98 - 102. ({{{13}}})
Egan, J. (1987) The Story of Cricket in Australia. Crows Nest, NSW, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ({{{13}}})
Egan, J. M. (2008) Base Ball on the Western reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: The first 50 pages include ballplaying befor3 1870, including game summaries from a number of places in NE Ohio.
Ellard, H. (2004) Baseball in Cincinnati: A History. McFarland: 199. ({{{13}}})
read online: Originally published in 1908. Pages 17-92 cover the growth of base ball from 1860 to the formations of the Red Stockings in 1869.
Elston, G. (2001) A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845 - 2000. Halcyon Press. ({{{13}}})
Endrei, W., and Laszlo Zolnay (1986) Fun and Games in Old Europe. Budapest, Corvina Klado. ({{{13}}})
Federal Writers' Project (Illinois) (1939) Baseball in Old Chicago. Chicago, A. C. McClurg. ({{{13}}})
read online: Pages 1-9 supply the context for the rise of pro baseball in Chicago and the surrounding area.
Felber, Bill, editor (2013) Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century. Phoenix, AZ, SABR: 290. ({{{13}}})
read online: Twenty-seven of SABR's 100 "Greatest Games" of the 1800s occurred before the first professional league appeared in 1871. Each game is described in an essay of 2 or 3 pages. Includes illustrations.
Fillmore, S. (1977) The Pleasure of the Game: The Story of Toronto Cricket, 1827-1977. Toronto, Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club. ({{{13}}})
read online: Book is missing from shelf.
Fogel, H. S. (1921) Evolution of Baseball from 1833 Up to the Present Time. Philadelphia?, Daily Evening Telegraph. ({{{13}}})
Fred H. Harrison (1983) The Hard-Ball Game. Phillips Academy. ({{{13}}})
read online: This is chapter 2 of Harrison's Athletics for All: Physical Education and Athletics at Phillips Academy 1778-1978 (Phillips Academy, 1984). It describes ballplaying at the Academy from 1811 to 1878.
Freedman, Stephen (1978) "The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870." Journal of Sport History. 5(2): 42-64. ({{{13}}})
read online: This paper does not probe the earlier beginnings of Chicago baseball. It does report that as of 1860, Chicago had only 4 "private baseball clubs," despite its population of nearly 110,000.
Freyer, J., and Mark Rucker, Ed. (2005) Peverelly's National Game: Images of Baseball. Arcadia Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: a reprinting of the chapter "The National Game," from Charles Peverelly's 1866 self-published book, American Pastimes
Frommer, H. (1995) Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Burroughs to the Ballparks. Dallas, Tavlor Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: Book is missing from shelf.
Gabriel, J. D. (1988) "The Celtic Claim to the Grand Old Game." Minneapolis Review of Baseball. 7(3): 26-28. ({{{13}}})
Gale, F. (1871) Echoes from Old Cricket Fields. London, Simpkin, Marshall. ({{{13}}})
Gelber, S. M. (1984) "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917." Journal of Sport History. 11(1): 5-27. ({{{13}}})
Genovese, D. L. (2004) The Old Ball Ground: the Chronological History of Westfield Baseball. West Conshohocken, PA, Infinity Publishing. ({{{13}}})
Genovese, Daniel L. (2004) Chapter 2 -- Wicket Ball: The Predecessor to 'The New York Game'. The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History Westfield Baseball. 9-24. ({{{13}}})
Gershman, M. (1993) Green Pastures (1845-1875). Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark. Houghton Mifflin: 5-23. ({{{13}}})
Gilbert, T. (1995) Elysian Fields: The Birth of Baseball. Grolier. ({{{13}}})
Gini, C. (1941) "Considerazioni ed Ipotesi Sull'origine del 'Om el Mahag'." Genus. 5(1-2): 73-86. ({{{13}}})
Gini, C. (1939) "Rural Games in Libya." Rural Sociology. 4(3): 283-299. ({{{13}}})
Goldstein, R. (1991) Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball. Dutton. ({{{13}}})
read online: Book has not been evaluated.
Goldstein, W. (1989) Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball. Cornell University Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: paperback edition, 1991
Gomme, A. B. (1894) Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1. London, David Nutt. ({{{13}}})
Gomme, A. B. (1964) The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2. New York, Dover. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprint -- original publication 1898
Gonzalez, C. (2007) "A New Perspective on Mexican Baseball Origins." Base Ball. 1(2): 64-72. ({{{13}}})
Gorn, E., and Warren Goldstein (1993) A Brief History of American Sports. Hill and Wang. ({{{13}}})
Gould, S. J. (1989) The Creation Myths of Cooperstown. Natural History. 14-24. ({{{13}}})
Goulstone, J. (2001) Hambledon: The Men and the Myths. Cambridge, England, Roger Heavens: 1-7. ({{{13}}})
Goulstone, J. (1972) Early Club and Village Cricket. ({{{13}}})
read online: Private publication
Gower, D. (2002) History of Cricket. Pellinore Productions. ({{{13}}})
read online: DVD
Green, B. (1988) A History of CricketCountry=. London, Barrie and Jenkins. ({{{13}}})
Green, B., Ed. (1979) Wisden Anthology 1864 - 1900. Queen Anne Press. ({{{13}}})
Green, S. (1982) Cricketing Bygones. Shire Publications. ({{{13}}})
Green, S. (1988) "Some Cricket Records." Archives. 18(80): 187-198. ({{{13}}})
Griffith, W. R. (1992) The Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland 87. Maryland Historical Magazine: 201-208. ({{{13}}})
read online: Book is missing from shelf.
Grossinger, R. (1977) Baseball Variants. Baseball I Gave You the Best Years of My Life. Oakland, North Atlantic Books: 21-24. ({{{13}}})
Guarinoni, H. (1610) The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race. Ingolstadt, Austria. ({{{13}}})
read online: Orig: Greuel der Verwustung des Menschlichen Geschlechts.
Guttman, A. (1978) From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports. Columbia University Press. ({{{13}}})
Guttman, A. (1988) A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports. University of North Carolina Press. ({{{13}}})
Guttman, A. (1994) BaseballCountry=. Games and Empire: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism. Columbia University Press: 71-96. ({{{13}}})
Hajdu, G. (1971) Collection of Hungarian Folk Games. Budapest. ({{{13}}})
read online: translated from Hungarian 'Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye'
Hammond, W. (1952) Cricket’s Secret HistoryCountry=. London, Stanley Paul & Co.. ({{{13}}})
Hardwick, Caleb () Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia (website). ({{{13}}})
Harris, Richard (2014) Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime in the City By the Sea. The History Press: 172. ({{{13}}})
read online: Chapter 2, "Origins and Development," pages 34 - 50, cover the pre-professional era in RI and Newport.
Harris, Rick (2014) Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime by the Sea.. History Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: The story of baseball in Newport, Rhode Island. Protoball doesn't yet know how much of the book treats the Origins Era, up through 1871.
Harris, Rick (2008) Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years. Book. History Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: Most of the book's coverage of the Origins Era are in Chapter 1 ("Before Baseball"), pages 21-26, and Chapter 2 ("Notes on the Development of the National Pastime"), pages 27 - 37.
Hazlitt, W. C. (1905) Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs. London, Reeves and Turner. ({{{13}}})
Helyar, J. (1994) Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball. Villard Books. ({{{13}}})
Henderson, R. W. (1947) Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games. New York, Rockport Press. ({{{13}}})
Henderson, R. W. (1939) "Baseball and Rounders." Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 43(4): 303-314. ({{{13}}})
Henderson, R. W. (1977) Early American Sport: A Checklist of Books by American and Foreign Authors Published in America Prior to 1860. Rutherford, NJ, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press. ({{{13}}})
Hershberger, R. (2007) "A Reconstruction of Philadelphia Town Ball." Base Ball. 1(2): 28-43. ({{{13}}})
Hershberger, Richard (2011) "1821 -- New York Mansion Converted to Venue Suitable for Ballplaying." Base Ball. 5(1): 58 - 60. ({{{13}}})
Hershberger, Richard (2011) "1831 -- The Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia." Base Ball. 5(1): 77-80. ({{{13}}})
Hershberger, Richard (2014) "The Creation of the Alexander Cartwright Myth." The Baseball Research Journal. 43(1): SABR: 13-21. ({{{13}}})
Hershberger, Richard (2013) "The Base Ball Convention of 1857." Base Ball. 7(Fall 2013): McFarland and Company: 28-44. ({{{13}}})
Hise, Beth (2011) "1862 -- American Cricket in the 1860s." Base Ball. 5(1): 143 - 148. ({{{13}}})
Hole, C. (1949) English Sports and Pastimes. London, B. T. Batsford, Ltd. ({{{13}}})
Holliman, J. (1931) American Sports (1785-1835). Durhan, NC, Seeman Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975
Howell, Colin D. (1995) Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball. U of Toronto Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: Most of this book is reported to cover the 1870s.
Howorth, P. (1995) East Yorkshire Cricket 1778-1914. Driffield, Lowndes Publications. ({{{13}}})
Hubbell, R. W. (1948) Tribute Paid to General Doubleday, Founder of Our National Game. New York, New York Times. ({{{13}}})
Hulbert, J. (2007) "Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day." Base Ball. 1(1): 73-77. ({{{13}}})
Humber, W. (1995) Diamonds in the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada. Oxford University Press. ({{{13}}})
Husman, J. R. (2004) Ohio's First Baseball Game. Played by Confederates and Taught to Yankees. 8. ({{{13}}})
Hutchinson, H. G. (1893) "The Evolution of Games at Ball." The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature. 57: 831 ff. ({{{13}}})
Irwin, W. (1945) "No, It Wasn't Doubleday!." Baseball Digest: 52-54. ({{{13}}})
Irwin, W. (1909) "Before the Professionals Came." Collier's. 43: 12-15. ({{{13}}})
Ivor-Campbell, F. (2007) "Knickerbocker Base Ball: The Birth and Infancy of the Modern Game." Base Ball. 1(2): 55-66. ({{{13}}})
Jarvie, G., ed. (2000) Sport, Scotland and the Scots. London, Tuckwell Press. ({{{13}}})
Jensen, D. (2005) The Timeline History of Baseball. Palgrave Books. ({{{13}}})
Jewell, B. (1977) Sports and Games: History and Origins. Tunbridge Wells, UK, Midas Books. ({{{13}}})
Johnson, Drew (2013) America's 50th Home Run. Vimeo. ({{{13}}})
read online: A 45-minute film on the history of base ball in Hawaii.
KBB Club () Knickerbocker Score Books, Game Books, and Meeting Logs. ({{{13}}})
read online: On microfilm from NYPL; SABR has a copy of the set as well as the Chadwick and Spalding and Wright scrapbooks and diaries.
Kashatus, William () Diamonds in the Coal Fields. Jefferson NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: Covers 1876-1960; depth of coverage of early years not known. Area covered in NE Pennsylvania. Coverage may center on a few colorful individuals.
Kirsch, G. B. (2003) Baseball in Blue and Gray. Princeton University Press. ({{{13}}})
Kirsch, G. B. (1989) The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-1872. University of Illinois Press. ({{{13}}})
Kirsch, G. B. (1991) Massachusetts Baseball and Cricket, 1840-1870. Sports in Massachusetts: Historical Essays. Westfield, MA, Institute for Massachusetts Studies: 1-15. ({{{13}}})
read online: R. Story, ed.
Kirsch, G. B., ed. (1992) Sports in North America: A Documentary History, Volume 3: The Rise of Modern Sports 1840-1860. Academic International Press. ({{{13}}})
Kittel, Jeff (2010) Research Notes on Modern BB in Early IL. ({{{13}}})
read online: About a dozen refs to baseball up to 1868
Knight, A. E. (1906) The Complete Cricketer. London, Methuen and Company. ({{{13}}})
Knowles, R. G., and Richard Morton (1896) Baseball in America. Baseball: The "Oval" Series of Games. London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd: 82 ff. ({{{13}}})
Koppett, L. (1998) Concise History of Major League Baseball. Temple University Press: 1-14. ({{{13}}})
Kovach, John M. (2004) Baseball in South Bend. Arcadia: 128 pages. ({{{13}}})
read online: From an EBay listing, 9/25/2006
Krout, J. A. (1929) Annals of American Sport. New Haven, Yale University Press. ({{{13}}})
Lansche, G. (1991) Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered. Dallas, Taylor. ({{{13}}})
Lardner, J. (1950) Mr. Henderson and the Cooperstown Myth. True. ({{{13}}})
Leitner, I. A. (1972) Baseball: Diamond in the Rough. Criterion Books. ({{{13}}})
Lester, J. A. (1951) A Century of Philadelphia Cricket. University of Pennsylvania Press. ({{{13}}})
Levine, P. (1985) A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. Oxford University Press. ({{{13}}})
Levine, P., Ed. (1989) Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research. Meckler Books. ({{{13}}})
Levinson, D., and Karen Christopher, Ed. (1999) Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford University Press. ({{{13}}})
Lewis, G. (1970) "The Beginning of Organized Collegiate Sport." American Quarterly. 22(2): 222-229. ({{{13}}})
Lewis, Harry (2011) "1781 -- Protoball at Harvard: From Pastime to Contest." Base Ball. 5(1): 41 - 45. ({{{13}}})
Lewis, T. (1987) Double Century: The Story of MCC and Cricket. Hodder and Stoughton. ({{{13}}})
Liberman, N. (2003) Glove Affairs: The Romance, History and Tradition of the Baseball Glove. Chicago, Triumph. ({{{13}}})
Lieb, F. G. (1950) The Baseball Story. G. P. Putnam’s. ({{{13}}})
Light, J. F. (1997) Origins of Baseball. The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Louden, G. A. (1939) Beginnings an d Development of the Game of Baseball. Cooperstown, self-published. ({{{13}}})
Lovett, J. D. W. (1907) Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played. Boston, Riverside Press: Chapter XII, 125-132. ({{{13}}})
Lusted, Andrew (2011) The Glynde Butterflies Stoolball Team, 1866-1887. Lewes, England. ({{{13}}})
MacDougall, Hugh (2011) Abner Graves: The Man who Brought Baseball to Cooperstown. 44. ({{{13}}})
read online: This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011).
Macfarlane, A. (2007) "The Knickerbockers; San Francisco's First Baseball Team?." Base Ball. 1(1): 7-21. ({{{13}}})
Macgregor, R. R. (1879) Early Forms of Cricket 39. Belgravia. 450-456. ({{{13}}})
read online: Braddon, M. ed.
Madden, W.C. (2003) Baseball in Indianapolis. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: Not assessed as of Nov. 2013
Maigaard, P. (1941) "Battingball Games." Genus. 5. ({{{13}}})
Maigaard, P. (1940) "Slagboldspillenes Historie." Danske Studien: 33-48. ({{{13}}})
Manchester, H. (1991) Ball Games: 1800-1860. Four Centuries of Sport in America: 1490-1890. Lyon, Mississippi, Derrydale Press: 121-130. ({{{13}}})
Marchiano, (Ms) Sam, Director (2010) Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings. MLB.com. ({{{13}}})
Marks, V. (1989) Wisden Illustrated History of Cricket. W. H. Smith. ({{{13}}})
Martin-Jenkins, C. (1995) Cricket: A Way of Life. Marks and Spenser. ({{{13}}})
read online: 1984 hardback edition by Century Publishing
Martineau, G. D. (1957) They Made Cricket. London, The Sportsman's Book Club. ({{{13}}})
Mayhew/Baker, e. (1858) Base BallCountry=. A Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated. Boston, Mayhew and Baker: 20 - 24. ({{{13}}})
McCarthy, Kevin (1996) Baseball in Florida. Pineapple Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying.
McCray, Larry (2011) "1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying." Base Ball. 5(1): 69 - 72. ({{{13}}})
McCray, Larry (2011) "1830 -- Thoreau's Diary Entry and Other Tiny Clues as to Who Played Early Ball." Base Ball. 5(1): 73 - 76. ({{{13}}})
McCray, Larry (2011) "1845 -- The Knickerbocker Rules, and the Long History of the One-Bounce Fielding Rule." Base Ball. 5(1): 93 - 97. ({{{13}}})
McCray, Larry (2011) "1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch." Base Ball. 5(1): 114 - 117. ({{{13}}})
McCray, Larry (2011) "1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime." Base Ball. 5(1): 132 - 135. ({{{13}}})
McCulloch, J. (1895) Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket Toronto. Bryant Publishing. ({{{13}}})
McCulloch, R. (1995) How Baseball Began: The Long Overlooked Truth about the Birth of Baseball. Warwick. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by McFarland, 2001
McCulloch, R., Ed. (2000) Baseball’s Roots: The Fascinating Birth of America’s Game. Warwick. ({{{13}}})
McGuire, M. (2003) "The Ongoing Fable of Baseball." New York Archives. 2(4): 8-12. ({{{13}}})
McKinnon, L. C. (1910) "Games Played with a Ball." Baseball. 4: 71-72. ({{{13}}})
McLean, T. (1985) The English at Play in the Middle Ages. Kensal Press. ({{{13}}})
McNary, K. (2003) Black Baseball: A History of African-Americans and the National Game. PRC Publishing, London. ({{{13}}})
Mears, C. D. (1853) Mears Baseball Scrapbooks. ({{{13}}})
Mehl, E. (1948) "Baseball in the Stone Age." Western Folklore. 7(2): 145-161. ({{{13}}})
Melville, T. (2001) Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Melville, T. (1998) The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America. Bowling Green University Popular Press. ({{{13}}})
Menke, F. G. (1944) Baseball (Menke). Encyclopedia of Sports. A. S. Barnes: 55ff. ({{{13}}})
Menke, F. G. (1947) Baseball -- Major. The New Encyclopedia of Sports. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company: 77ff. ({{{13}}})
Merrifield, A. S. (1990) Baseball: Early History to 1869. Sports Encyclopedia of North America. Gulf Breeze, FL, Academic International Press: 139-152. ({{{13}}})
Miers, E. S. (1967) Baseball (Miers). Grosset and Dunlap. ({{{13}}})
Millen, P. (2001) From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books. ({{{13}}})
Millen, Patricia (2011) "1863 -- On the Battlefront, the New York Game Takes Hold." Base Ball. 5(1): 149 - 152. ({{{13}}})
Miller, S. G. (2004) Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. University of California Press. ({{{13}}})
Moesche, C. R. (2000) Day-by-Day in Baseball History. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Monroe, Cecil O. (2012) "The Rise of Baseball in Minnesota." The National Pastime. SABR. ({{{13}}})
Montague, W. (1838) The Youth's Encyclopedia of Health. ({{{13}}})
Morland, G. (1914) Balldom: A History of Baseball. ({{{13}}})
read online: Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999
Morris, P. (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan. University of Michigan Press. ({{{13}}})
Morris, P. (2007) The Pursuit of Pleasure Under Difficulties. Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press: 15-32. ({{{13}}})
Morris, P. (2006) A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. Chicago, Ivan Dee. ({{{13}}})
Morris, Peter (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Basebnall in Michigan. U of Michigan Press: 362. ({{{13}}})
Morris, Peter (2013) Massachusetts (Chapter Five of Morris' "Baseball Founders"). Baseball Founders. Jefferson NC, McFarland and Company: 260 - 319. ({{{13}}})
Morris, Peter, et. al., Editors (2013) Base Ball Founders; the Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast that Established the Game. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 332. ({{{13}}})
read online: Essays on each of 40 early clubs in downstate New York, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts, with an average length of about 8 pages.
Morris, Peter, et. al., editors (2012) Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 354. ({{{13}}})
read online: Essays for each of 68 early ballclubs outside the metropolitan area of New York. The average essay is about 5 pages in length.
Morris, Peter, et.al. (2012) Base Ball Pioneers: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Morse, J. (1888) Sphere and Ash: History of Base Ball. Boston, J. F. Spofford. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1984
Moult, T., ed. (1935) Bat and Ball; A New Book of Cricket. Arthur Barker Ltd. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted in 1960 by Sprotsman's Book Club
Myers, Minor (1988) Baseball in Geneva. Geneva Historical Society: 22. ({{{13}}})
read online: The first 4 pages of this mimeo booklet cover pre-1870 ballplaying.
Nash, P. J. (2003) Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
Nemec, D., and Saul Wisnia (1997) Baseball: More Than 150 Years. Publications International Ltd. ({{{13}}})
Newell, W. W. (1883) Games and Songs of American Children. New York, Dover. ({{{13}}})
read online: 1963 reprint
Norridge, J. (2008) Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? How the British Invented Sport. Allen Lane. ({{{13}}})
Norton, F. C. (1904) That Strange Yankee Game, Wicket. Hartford, Hartford Courant. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted in Bristol Connecticut, City Printing Company, Hartford, 1907
Nugent, W. H. (1925) "Baseball's Age of Innocence." American Legion Weekly. 7(4-5): 14-17. ({{{13}}})
Nyren, J. (1828) The Progress of Cricket. ({{{13}}})
read online: 7th edition. Reprinted in Chronicles of Cricket. London, Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1888: 92-101
Ohler, W. Richard (2001) "The History of Baseball in Buffalo." Western New York Heritage. 4(1): 59-62. ({{{13}}})
read online: About three paragraphs of this 4-page article treat the years prior to 1880.
Orem, P. (1961) Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena, CA, private printing. ({{{13}}})
Overfield, J. M. (1985) 100 Years of Buffalo Baseball. Kenmore, NY, Partner's Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: A single page of this book is devoted to the pre 1870 period, and two more pages treat a local clubs that played before 1880 in the International League and then [starting in 1879] in the young National League.
Overmyer, Jim, et. al (tbd) Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond. ({{{13}}})
Pajot, Dennis (2009) The Rise of Milwaukee Baseball . . . 1859-1901. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: Details unknown 11/2013
Palmer, H. C., et al. (1889) Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia. W. A. Houghton. ({{{13}}})
Pardon, G. (1858) Games for All Seasons. London, James Blackwood. ({{{13}}})
Parker, B. (1967) "Batter Up: Fort Wayne's Baseball History." Old Fort News. 30(3). ({{{13}}})
Parker, Bob (1967) Batter Up: Ft. Wayne's Baeball History 1862-1967. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been evaluated n Nov. 2013. Available information is taken from an EBay offer in 2006.
Parker, D. (1951) "Who Really Invented Baseball?." Sport. 10: 14-17. ({{{13}}})
Parker, E. (1950) The History of Cricket. London, Seeley Service & Co. ({{{13}}})
Patel, Jayesh (2013) Flannels on the Sward: History of Cricket in Americas. Jayesh Patel: 385. ({{{13}}})
read online: Chapter 1: Colonial Cousins, the Yankee Game of Wicket, pp. 1 -28. Counting roughly, the book's first 180 or so pages treat the years prior to professional base ball in the US.
Payne, Marty (2011) "1858 -- Diffusion of the New York Game in Maryland." Base Ball. 5(1): 127 - 131. ({{{13}}})
Peeler, Tim, and B. McLawhorn (2004) Baseball in Catawba County NC. Arcadia: 128. ({{{13}}})
read online: Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006
Peter () Baseball Pioneers. ({{{13}}})
Peter Morris, et. al. () Chapter 5, Massachusetts. ({{{13}}})
Peterson, H. (1973) The Man Who Invented Baseball. Charles Scribner’s Sons. ({{{13}}})
Petula, Nickolas (1992) A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953. (spiral bound). ({{{13}}})
read online: Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005.
Peverelly, C. (1866) Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing and Yachting Clubs of the United States. New York, privately printed. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted in 2005 as Peverelly's National Game, John Freyer and Mark Rucker, eds., Arcadia
Phelps-Stokes, I. N. (1915) The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1915 - 1928Country=. New York, Robert H. Dodd. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted in 1967 by Amo
Phillips, B. (1894) "Cricket in the Forties." Harper's Weekly. 38: 908 ff. ({{{13}}})
Pietruzsa, D. (1992) A Question of Territory. Troy’s Baseball Heritage. Troy, NY, Society for American Baseball Research: 13. ({{{13}}})
read online: Not evaluated.
Pitoniak, Scott (2003) Baseball in Rochester. Arcadia Publishing. ({{{13}}})
Podoll, B. A. (2003) The Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, 1859-1952. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Poillucci, J. V. (2001) Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a GameCountry=US. Routledge Books. ({{{13}}})
read online: Not evaluated.
Presbey, F. (1901) Athletics at Princeton: A History. New York, Frank Presbrey Company. ({{{13}}})
Puff, Richard (unknown) Haymakers and Daisycutters: Troy and the National Pastime. Committee to Preserve Troy's Baseball Heritage: 12 pages. ({{{13}}})
read online: No references appear in the 12-page section of the facsimile kindly provided by John Thorn.
Pycroft, J. (1854) The Cricket Field. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. ({{{13}}})
Rader, B. G. (1983) American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators. Prentice-Hall. ({{{13}}})
Rader, B. G. (1992) Baseball: A History of America’s Game. University of Illinois Press. ({{{13}}})
Rader, B. G. (1996) Baseball – North American 1. Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. Santa Barbara CA, ABC-CLIO: 91-99. ({{{13}}})
Rait Kerr, R. S. (1950) The Laws of Cricket: Their History and Growth. Longmans, Green & Co. ({{{13}}})
Rankin, W. (1909) "The History of Baseball." Baseball Magazine. 3: 13-22. ({{{13}}})
Read, W. W. (1897) Annals of Cricket. Sampson, Low, Marston. ({{{13}}})
Reaves, J. A. (2001) Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press. ({{{13}}})
Ribowsky, M. (2003) The Complete History of the Home Run. New York, Citadel Press. ({{{13}}})
Richter, F. (1914) Richter’s History and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport. Philadelphia, Dando. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted by McFarland, 2005
Richter, F. C. (1909) A Brief History of Baseball. Sporting Life Publications. ({{{13}}})
Riess, S. A. (1989) City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. University of Illinois Press. ({{{13}}})
Riess, S. A. (1995) Sport in Industrial American, 1850-1920. Wheeling IL, Harlan Davidson. ({{{13}}})
Ritter, L. S. (1983) The Story of BaseballCountry=. HarperTrophy. ({{{13}}})
read online: Beech Tree edition -- 1999
Roff, E. (1912) Base ball and base ball players. Chicago, E. A. Roff. ({{{13}}})
Rosenburg, J. M. (1962) The Story of Baseball. Random House. ({{{13}}})
Ross, G. (1972) A History of Cricket. London, Arthur Barket. ({{{13}}})
Rossi, J. (2000) The National Game: Baseball and American Culture. Ivan Dee. ({{{13}}})
Routledge, E., ed. (1881) Every Boy's Book; A Complete Encyclopedia of Sports and Amusements. London, George Routledge and Sons. ({{{13}}})
read online: Fourteenth Edition; First edition 1841
Rubin, Sam (2003) Baseball in New Haven. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: Information from an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.
Rucker, M., and John Freyer (2003) 19th Century Baseball in Chicago. Arcadia Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: Not evaluated.
Rucker, M., and Stephen Hanks (1989) 150 Years of Baseball. Publications International. ({{{13}}})
Ryczek, W. J. (1992) Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball's National Association. Wallingford CT, Colebrook Press. ({{{13}}})
Ryczek, W. J. (1998) When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870. McFarland & Co. ({{{13}}})
Ryczek, William (2011) "1854 -- William Van Cott Writes a Letter to the Sporting Press." Base Ball. 5(1): 111 - 113. ({{{13}}})
Ryczek, William (2009) Chapter 10. Baseball in Philadelphia (of 'Baseball's First Inning'). Jefferson NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: Pages 14 ff trace evidence on early modern baseball clubs in Pha.
Ryczek, William J. (2009) Baseball's First Inning: A History of the National Pastime Through the Civil War. Yes. Jefferson NC, McFarland and Company. ({{{13}}})
Sarchet, C. M. (1908) "Baseball as Played By the Indians." Baseball. 1: 26-28. ({{{13}}})
Schaefer, Robert (2011) "1858 -- The Changes Wrought by the Great Base Ball Match of 1858." Base Ball. 5(1): 122 - 126. ({{{13}}})
Schiff, A. J. (2007) 'The Father of Baseball': A Biography of Henry Chadwick. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Schiff, A. J. (2008) "Henry Chadwick: The 'Father of Baseball' Was a Sportswriter." National Pastime. 28: 26-29. ({{{13}}})
Scholefield, P. (1990) Cricket Laws and Terms. Kent Town, Australia, Axiom Publishing. ({{{13}}})
Sentance, P. D. (2006) Cricket in America, 1710-2000. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Setzer, J. (1996) Baseball in the Nineteenth Century. Society for American Baseball Research. ({{{13}}})
Seymour, G. D. (1909) The Old-Time Game of Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players. 2. Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. 269-303. ({{{13}}})
Seymour, George Dudley (1909) The Old-Time Game of Wicket. ({{{13}}})
Seymour, H. (1960) Baseball: The Early Years. ({{{13}}})
read online: Oxford University Press printed a later edition in 1989.
Seymour, H. (1990) Baseball: The People’s Game. Oxford University Press. ({{{13}}})
Seymour, H. (1956) "How Baseball Began." Historical Society Quarterly: 369-385. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reprinted in John Thorn, ed., The Armchair Book of Baseball: An All-Star Lineup Celebrates America’s National Pastime [Galahad Books, 1997], pp 283-295.
Seymour, H. (1990) "Review of Kirsch's 'The Creation of American Team Sports'." Journal of American History. 77(1): 294-295. ({{{13}}})
Shampoe, Clay, and T. Garrett (2004) Baseball in Portsmouth. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: Information from an EBay posting, 10/31/2006. Pictorial History
Shieber, T. (1994) "The Evolution of the Baseball Diamond." Baseball Research Journal. 23: 3-12. ({{{13}}})
Shiffert, J. (2006) Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 288. ({{{13}}})
read online: The first two chapters (30 pages) cover the period before the Civil War.
Shiffert, J. (2007) "From Pastime to Monopoly." Pennsylvania Legacies. 7(1): 16-21. ({{{13}}})
Smith, C. (1867) Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside. Milton Bradley. ({{{13}}})
Smith, C. (2001) Storied Stadiums: Baseball's History Through its Ballparks. New York, Carrol and Graf. ({{{13}}})
Smith, P. () The Observer's Book of Cricket. London, Frederick Warne. ({{{13}}})
read online: first published 1973
Smith, R. (1949) Baseball (Smith). Simon and Schuster. ({{{13}}})
Smith, R. (1961) Baseball in America: An Illustrated History of Our National Pastime. Holt Rinehart and Winston. ({{{13}}})
Solomon, B. (1997) The Baseball Timeline. Stonesong Press. ({{{13}}})
Somers, D. A. (1972) The Rise of Sports in New Orleans, 1850-1900. Louisiana State University Press. ({{{13}}})
Soos, T. (1997) Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918. Hyannis, MA, Parnassus Imprints. ({{{13}}})
Spalding, A. G. (1911) America’s National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginnings, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball. New York, American Sports Publishing Company. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Spalding, A. G. (1905) "The Origin and History of Baseball." American Boy. 6(215). ({{{13}}})
read online: first of two parts
Spalding, A. G. (1906) The Origin of Base BallCountry=. Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide – 1906. Spalding: 6. ({{{13}}})
Spalding, A. G. (1874) Scrapbooks, 1874-1913. ({{{13}}})
Spalding, A. G. (1905) What is the Origin of Base Ball?. Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide, 1905. Spalding: 3-13. ({{{13}}})
Spink, A. H. (1910) The National Game. National Game Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: 2nd Edition, 1911 -- reprinted by Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Staats, Richard (2003) A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and the Silver Ball. ({{{13}}})
read online: This source has not been evaluated. According to a 2005 EBay offering, it tells how "Base Ball exploded with enthusiasm across northeast Ohio in 1867."
Stewart, M. (1998) Baseball; A History of the National Pastime. Grolier. ({{{13}}})
Story, R. (2001) The Country of the Young: The Meaning of Baseball in Early American Culture. Baseball History from Outside the Lines. J. E. Dreifort. University of Nebraska Press: 19-33. ({{{13}}})
Strutt, J. (1801) The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London, Methuen. ({{{13}}})
Strutt, J. (1903) The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England—A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Corrected by J. Charles Fox. London, Methuen. ({{{13}}})
read online: Reissued by Singing Tree Press, Detroit, 1968
Sullivan, D. A., Ed. (1995) Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball 1825-1908. University of Nebraska Press. ({{{13}}})
Sullivan, J. E. (1908) The Origin of Base Ball. Spalding’s Guide to Base Ball – 1908. Spalding: 35-49. ({{{13}}})
Sumner, J. (1989) Baseball at Salisbury Prison Camp. Baseball History. Westport, CT: 19-27. ({{{13}}})
Sutter, L. M. (2009) Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South. Jefferson NC, NcFarland. ({{{13}}})
read online: Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013.
Swank, Bill (2004) Baseball in San Diego:From the Pares to Petco. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: Mostly a book of photographs, reportedly.
Tarvin, A. H. (1940) Seventy-five Years on Louisville Diamonds (booklet). ({{{13}}})
read online: Information taken from an EBay offering in 2005.
Terry, David (2000) "The Seventeenth Century Game of Cricket: A Reconstruction of the Game." The Sports Historian(Number 20): 33-43. ({{{13}}})
Terry, J. L. (2002) Long Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Thilgen, D. (2002) Midwest and National Base Ball in Minnesota Newspapers. London, Ontario, VBBA Annual Convention. ({{{13}}})
Tholkes, Robert (2011) "1860 -- The 'Sunday Mercury' Summarizes the 1860 Season." Base Ball. 5(1): 136 - 138. ({{{13}}})
Tholkes, Robert (2016) "The Young and the Restless: George Wright 1865-1868.." Baseball Research Journal(Fall 2016): 95-101. ({{{13}}})
Tholkes, Robert J. (2016) "The Young and the Restless: George Wright, 1865-1868." Baseball Research Journal: SABR: 95 - 101. ({{{13}}})
Thomas L. Altherr, et al, Eds (1997) Sports in North America, a Documentary History: Sports in the Colonial Era, 1618-1783. Academic International Press. ({{{13}}})
Thompson, George (2011) "1805 -- An Enigmatic 1805 'Game of Bace' in New York." Base Ball. 5(1): 55 - 57. ({{{13}}})
Thompson, George (2011) "1823 -- Game of Baseball Reported in 'National Advocate'." Base Ball. 51: 61 - 64. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, J. (2007) "1791 And All That; Baseball and the Berkshires." Base Ball. 1(1): 119-126. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, J. (2005) The Game that Got Away. Boston, Boston Globe. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, J. (1995) Our Game. Total Baseball. The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. Viking Press: 5-14. ({{{13}}})
read online: 4th edition
Thorn, J. (1992) "The True Father of Baseball." Elysian Fields Quarterly. ({{{13}}})
read online: revised several times since; most recently published in Total Baseball, 8th ed. (Sport Classic Books, 2004)
Thorn, John (2011) Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. Simon and Schuster. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, John (2011) "1791 -- The Pittsfield 'Baseball' Bylaw -- What it Means." Base Ball. 5(1): 46 - 49. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, John (2011) "1843 -- Magnolia Club Predates the Knickerbocker." Base Ball. 5(1): 89 - 92. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, John (2011) "1853 -- The Baseball Press Emerges." Base Ball. 5(1): 106 - 110. ({{{13}}})
Thorn, John (2015) 'The Making of a New York Folk Hero'. 2. ({{{13}}})
read online: Up-to-date reflections on how and why Abner Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright seem to have been accorded inventor status for base ball, which, evidence increasingly shows, actually progressed by incremental evolutionary means.
Thornley, Stew (2006) Baseball in Minnesota: A Definitive History. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been scrutinized in Nov. 2013.
Tootle, James (2002) Baseball in Columbus. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history.
Toyne, S. M. (1955) "The Early History of Cricket." History Today. 6: 357-365. ({{{13}}})
Turkin, H., and S. C. Thomson (1956) The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball: Revised Edition. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company. ({{{13}}})
Turner, Brian (2011) "1726 -- Ballplaying and Boston Common: A Town Playground for Boys . . . And Men." Base Ball. 5(1): 21-24. ({{{13}}})
Turner, Brian (2011) "1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term?." Base Ball. 5(1): 37 - 40. ({{{13}}})
Turner, Brian and John S. Bowman (2002, rev. 2011) The Hurrah Game: Baseball in Northampton, 1791-1953. x. Northampton MA, Historic Northampton. ({{{13}}})
read online: 26 pages of this 93-page book treat base ball's pre-professional period.
Turner, Brian and Larry McCray (2011) "1621 -- Pilgrim Stolball an the Profusion of American Safe-Haven BallgamesCountry=United States." Base Ball. 5(1): 10 -16. ({{{13}}})
Twohey, George (1897) A History of the Boston Baseball Club. ({{{13}}})
read online: The first 60 pages of this book cover the context in which the Boston Club arose, including the rise and fate of the Massachusetts game and the initial MA clubs playing by Association rules.
Twombly, W. (1976) 200 Years of Sport in America: A Pageant of a Nation at Play. McGraw-Hill. ({{{13}}})
Tygiel, J. (2000) The Mortar of Which Baseball is Held Together: Henry Chadwick and the Invention of Baseball Statistics. Past Time: Baseball as History. Oxford University Press: 15-34. ({{{13}}})
Tygiel, J. (2000) The National Game: Reflections on the Rise of Baseball in the 1850s and 1860s. Past Time: Baseball as History. Oxford University Press: 3-14. ({{{13}}})
Tyrrell, I. (1979) The Emergence of Modern American Baseball, c. 1850-1880. Sport in History: The Making of Modern Sport History. R. Cashman, and Michael McKernan. St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press: 205-216. ({{{13}}})
Underdown, D. (2000) Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth Century England. Allen Lane. ({{{13}}})
Unidentified () Unidentified Source. ({{{13}}})
read online: About 3 pages of this orphaned MS (Monica?) covers Hawaii ballplaying from 1810 to the arrival of the Spalding tour in 1888.
Unknown (1992) A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach. 26-page booklet. 26. ({{{13}}})
read online: This spiral-bound booklet was listed on EBay in 2004, but has not been obtained by Protoball. It was said to have a chronology from 1856 on.
Vecsey, G. (2006) Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game. New York, The Modern Library. ({{{13}}})
Vincent, T. (1981) The Rise and Fall of American Sport. New York, Seaview Books. ({{{13}}})
Viney, N., and Neil Grant (1978) An Illustrated History of Ball Games. London, Book Club Associates. ({{{13}}})
Voigt, D. Q. (1966) American Baseball: From Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System. Oklahoma University Press. ({{{13}}})
read online: reprinted by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983
Voigt, D. Q. (1976) America Through Baseball. Chicago, Nelson-Hall. ({{{13}}})
Waff, Craig (2011) "1860 -- Atlantics and Excelsiors Compete for the 'Championship'." Base Ball. 5(1): 139 - 142. ({{{13}}})
Wallop, D. (1969) Baseball: An Informal History. W. W. Norton. ({{{13}}})
read online: Bantam paperbock published 1970
Ward, G. C., and Ken Burns (1994) Baseball: An Illustrated History. Alfred A. Knopf. ({{{13}}})
Ward, G. C., with Ken Burns and Paul Robert Walker (1994) Who Invented The Game?: Baseball, The American Epic. A. A. Knopf. ({{{13}}})
Ward, J. M. (1888) Base-ball: How to Become a Player. Philadelphia, The Athletic Publishing Company. ({{{13}}})
read online: SABR reprint, 1993
Warner, P. (1950) Gentlemen v. Players, 1806-1949. London, George G. Harrap and Co. ({{{13}}})
Webber, R. (1961) The Phoenix History of Cricket. Phoenix Sports Books. ({{{13}}})
Wert, J. D. (1987) "Gentlemen Don’t Steal Bases." Sports History. 1(1): 34-41. ({{{13}}})
Williams, M. E. (1985) Double Century: 200 Years of Cricket in The Times. Collins and Willow. ({{{13}}})
Williams, P. (1994) Origins of the Baseball Myth. The Sports Immortals. Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 67-70. ({{{13}}})
Willughby, F., and Clive L. Hardy (2003) Francis Willughby’s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes. Ashgate Publishing. ({{{13}}})
read online: based on a 1670s manuscript
Wister, W. R. (1904) Some Reminiscences of Cricket in Philadelphia Before 1861. Philadelphia. ({{{13}}})
Wittke, C. (1952) "Baseball in its Adolescence." Ohio State Archeological and Historical Quarterly. 61(2): 111-127. ({{{13}}})
Wright, M. D. (2000) The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870. McFarland. ({{{13}}})
Wymer, N. (1949) Sport in England: A History of Two Thousand Years of Games and Pastimes. London, George G. Harrap and Co. ({{{13}}})
Yang, Dori Jones (2017) The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball. Yes. Tempe, Arizona, Sparkpress. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book of fiction, based on factual accounts adduced on pp 231-232 and pp 239-240, tells the story of 120 Chinese boys sent to New England in 1872 under the Chinese Educational Mission. They stayed about ten years in Americana families, and many played base ball. The experience, as well as later Chinese participation in base ball, is treated in Joel S. Franks, "Baseball and Racism's Traveling Eye," in Baldassaro and Johnson, The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), page 177 ff (see especially page 182).
Zinn, John () A Manly Pastime -- A Blog by John Zinn. ({{{13}}})
read online: John Zinn is compiling accounts of base ball in all of New Jersey up to 1870. He periodically posts essays on what he is finding on this site. He is now completing his search of all recorded NJ newspaper coverage in this era.
Zoerink, D. A. (1966) Rounders (Zoerink) 1. Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO: 816-818. ({{{13}}})
Zoss, J., and John Bowman (1996) Diamonds in the Rough. Contemporary Books. ({{{13}}})
several () "Baseball in Illinois." Illinois History. 14(7): 147-167. ({{{13}}})
read online: this April 1961 issue carries 9 articles on IL baseball in the past, mostly during the 20th century.
unknown (1985) A History of Baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area. unknown. ({{{13}}})
read online: This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013.
unknown (1954) The Philadelphia Cricket Club, 1854-1954. ({{{13}}})
read online: Information form an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.
unknown (2003) Baseball in Trenton. Arcadia. ({{{13}}})