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Chadwick, H. (1868) 'Balls Days' in the Year AD 1858. The Game of Base Ball. Columbia, SC, Camden House: 178-181.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Thorn, John (2015) 'The Making of a New York Folk Hero'. 2. (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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anson, A. C. (1900) A Ball Player’s Career. Chicago, Era Publishing. (reprinted by Amereon, 1993.)
Zinn, John () A Manly Pastime -- A Blog by John Zinn. (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.)
read online: http://amanlypastime.blogspot.com/
Dulles, F. R. (1940) America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation 1607-1940Country=. New York, Appleton-Century.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://archive.org/stream/americalearnstop007872mbp
Johnson, Drew (2013) America's 50th Home Run. Vimeo. (A 45-minute film on the history of base ball in Hawaii.)
read online: https://vimeo.com/83943744
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. (reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1992)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Blaine, D. P. (1840) An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. London, A. Stottswoods.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Read, W. W. (1897) Annals of Cricket. Sampson, Low, Marston.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hardwick, Caleb () Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia (website).
read online: http://arkbaseball.com
Palmer, H. C., et al. (1889) Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia. W. A. Houghton.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Presbey, F. (1901) Athletics at Princeton: A History. New York, Frank Presbrey Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Mayhew/Baker, e. (1858) Base BallCountry=. A Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated. Boston, Mayhew and Baker: 20 - 24.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://www.archive.org/stream/manualofcricketb00bost
Roff, E. (1912) Base ball and base ball players. Chicago, E. A. Roff.
Camp, W. (1889) "Base-Ball for the Spectator." The Century. 38: 831-838.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ward, J. M. (1888) Base-ball: How to Become a Player. Philadelphia, The Athletic Publishing Company. (SABR reprint, 1993)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Marchiano, (Ms) Sam, Director (2010) Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings. MLB.com.
Knowles, R. G., and Richard Morton (1896) Baseball in America. Baseball: The "Oval" Series of Games. London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd: 82 ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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. (reprinted in 2005 as Peverelly's National Game, John Freyer and Mark Rucker, eds., Arcadia)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Macgregor, R. R. (1879) Early Forms of Cricket 39. Belgravia. 450-456. (Braddon, M. ed.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Routledge, E., ed. (1881) Every Boy's Book; A Complete Encyclopedia of Sports and Amusements. London, George Routledge and Sons. (Fourteenth Edition; First edition 1841)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hazlitt, W. C. (1905) Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs. London, Reeves and Turner.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://archive.org/stream/popularantiquit01branuoft
Newell, W. W. (1883) Games and Songs of American Children. New York, Dover. (1963 reprint)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon (2009) History of Baseball in Portland OR. (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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon () Juab County (UT) Information for Students. (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.)
read online: http://w.juab travel.com/kids.htm, accessed May 2012
Dubois, Alexander (2018) "Litchfield and the Old Connecticut Game of Wicket." Litchfield Historical Journal.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: https://blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/?p=627
Mears, C. D. (1853) Mears Baseball Scrapbooks.
Harris, Rick (2014) Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime by the Sea.. History Press. (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.)
Brand, J. (1900) Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: The Origins of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions. London, George Bell and Sons.
Lovett, J. D. W. (1907) Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played. Boston, Riverside Press: Chapter XII, 125-132.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Smith, C. (1867) Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside. Milton Bradley.
Harris, Rick (2008) Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years. Book. History Press. (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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Richter, F. (1914) Richter’s History and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport. Philadelphia, Dando. (Reprinted by McFarland, 2005)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
McCulloch, J. (1895) Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket Toronto. Bryant Publishing.
Wister, W. R. (1904) Some Reminiscences of Cricket in Philadelphia Before 1861. Philadelphia.
Camp, W. (1910) "The American National Game: Professional and College Base-Ball in the Making." Century. 79: 936-948.
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). (Published September 18, 2013.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Birdsall, R. R. (1917) The Birthplace of Base Ball. The Story of Cooperstown. Cooperstown, NY, The Arthur Christ Co: 247-257.
Barbour, R. H. (1904) The Book of School and College Sports. New York, D. Appleton and Company.
Gould, S. J. (1989) The Creation Myths of Cooperstown. Natural History. 14-24.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hershberger, Richard (2014) "The Creation of the Alexander Cartwright Myth." The Baseball Research Journal. 43(1): SABR: 13-21.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Pycroft, J. (1854) The Cricket Field. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hutchinson, H. G. (1893) "The Evolution of Games at Ball." The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature. 57: 831 ff.
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. (Reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1983)
Fred H. Harrison (1983) The Hard-Ball Game. Phillips Academy. (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.)
Casey, H. J. (1912) "The History of Baseball: The Spectacular Career of America’s Foremost Game." Baseball Magazine. 8: 21 ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Phelps-Stokes, I. N. (1915) The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1915 - 1928Country=. New York, Robert H. Dodd. (reprinted in 1967 by Amo)
Thorn, John (2018) The Laws of baseball . . .and the 'Unchanging Game'.
Seymour, George Dudley (1909) The Old-Time Game of Wicket.
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.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Strutt, J. (1801) The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London, Methuen.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Gomme, A. B. (1964) The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2. New York, Dover. (reprint -- original publication 1898)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://archive.org/stream/traditionalgames02gommuoft
Gomme, A. B. (1894) Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1. London, David Nutt.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1912) "Who Started Baseball? A Word on the Origins of the National Game." Baseball. 8: 71-72.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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