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1963 reprint +
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1984 hardback edition by Century Publishing +
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26 pages of this 93-page book treat base ball's pre-professional period. +
2nd Edition, 1911 -- reprinted by Southern Illinois University Press, 2000 +
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4th edition +
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7th edition. Reprinted in Chronicles of Cricket. London, Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1888: 92-101 +
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A 45-minute film on the history of base ball in Hawaii. +
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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. +
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A snippet view of this book indicates that an initial chapter of at least 12 pages covers local base ball prior to 1884. +
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About 3 pages of this orphaned MS (Monica?) covers Hawaii ballplaying from 1810 to the arrival of the Spalding tour in 1888. +
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About 4 pages -- 18 through 21 -- appear to cover the period from the first clubs (1858) to the Civil War. +
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About a dozen refs to baseball up to 1868 +
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About three paragraphs of this 4-page article treat the years prior to 1880. +
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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. +
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Bantam paperbock published 1970 +
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Beech Tree edition -- 1999 +
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Book has not been evaluated. +
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Book is missing from shelf. +
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Book is missing from shelf. +
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Book is missing from shelf. +
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Braddon, M. ed. +
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Chapter 1, "The Beginnings," pages 3 - 14, covers the first clubs and the 1860s. +
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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. +
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Chapter 2, "Origins and Development," pages 34 - 50, cover the pre-professional era in RI and Newport. +
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The Jersey Game: The History of Modern Baseball from Its Birth to the Big Leagues in the Garden State +
Chapters 1 and 2, pages 1-39, cover the pre-professional era in NJ +
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Covers 1876-1960; depth of coverage of early years not known. Area covered in NE Pennsylvania. Coverage may center on a few colorful individuals. +
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DVD +
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Details unknown 11/2013 +
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Essays for each of 68 early ballclubs outside the metropolitan area of New York. The average essay is about 5 pages in length. +
Essays on each of 40 early clubs in downstate New York, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts, with an average length of about 8 pages. +
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Extent of coverage not known 11/2013. +
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Fourteenth Edition; First edition 1841 +
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From an EBay listing, 9/25/2006 +
Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013. +
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Identifying information to be recovered +
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. +
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Information form an EBay listing, 9/25/2006. +
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Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005. +
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Information from an EBay listing, 9/25/2006. +
Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006 +
Information from an EBay posting, 10/31/2006. Pictorial History +
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Information taken from an EBay offering in 2005. +
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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. +
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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. +
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Most of this book is reported to cover the 1870s. +
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Mostly a book of photographs, reportedly. +
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No references appear in the 12-page section of the facsimile kindly provided by John Thorn. +
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Not assessed as of Nov. 2013 +
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Not evaluated. +
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Not evaluated. +
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Not evaluated. +
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On microfilm from NYPL; SABR has a copy of the set as well as the Chadwick and Spalding and Wright scrapbooks and diaries. +
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Orig: Greuel der Verwustung des Menschlichen Geschlechts. +
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Originally published in 1908.
Pages 17-92 cover the growth of base ball from 1860 to the formations of the Red Stockings in 1869. +
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Our lead on this sketchy report is in a 9/10/2013 email from Joel Dinda. +
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Oxford University Press printed a later edition in 1989. +
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Pages 1-8 of this chapter cover ballplaying prior to the founding of Louisville National League in 1876. +
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Pages 1-9 supply the context for the rise of pro baseball in Chicago and the surrounding area. +
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Pages 14 ff trace evidence on early modern baseball clubs in Pha. +
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Private publication +
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Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999 +
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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 +
Published September 18, 2013. +
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R. Story, ed. +
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England—A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Corrected by J. Charles Fox +
Reissued by Singing Tree Press, Detroit, 1968 +
The Game of Baseball: How to Learn It, How to Play It, How to Teach It, with Sketches of Noted Players +
Reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1983 +
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Reprinted by McFarland, 2005 +
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Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974 +
Reprinted in 1960 by Sprotsman's Book Club +
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Reprinted in Bristol Connecticut, City Printing Company, Hartford, 1907 +
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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. +
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SABR reprint, 1993 +
The first 4 pages of this mimeo booklet cover pre-1870 ballplaying. +
Base Ball on the Western reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900 +
The first 50 pages include ballplaying befor3 1870, including game summaries from a number of places in NE Ohio. +
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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. +
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The first two chapters (30 pages) cover the period before the Civil War. +
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The initial 5 pages describe the runup to the foundation of the Dark Blues. +
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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. +
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This 470-page book evidently traces the OK careers of ballplayers. The EBay offeror did not mention that it covers earliest play there. +
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This book has no been examined as of 11/2013. +
This book has not been assessed. It is presented as a pictorial history. +
This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying. +
This book has not been evaluated n Nov. 2013. Available information is taken from an EBay offer in 2006. +
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This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013. +
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This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history. +
This book has not been scrutinized in Nov. 2013. +
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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). +
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Middleton's Seaason in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Profefssional Baseball TeamCountry=US +
This information appears in it front matter of the author's 2003 book on the Hartford Dark Blues +
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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. +
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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. +
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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. +
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. +
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This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011). +
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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. +
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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. +
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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." +
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This source has not been procured for evaluation. +
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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. +
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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. +
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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. +
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a reprinting of the chapter "The National Game," from Charles Peverelly's 1866 self-published book, American Pastimes +
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based on a 1670s manuscript +
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first edition was 1947 +
first of two parts +
first published 1973 +
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first published in 1985 or 1987. J. Thorn, editor +
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http://www.amazon.com/Sept-19-1867-Ball-Players-Chronicle/dp/B0039C4FM0
also New England Base Ball Players Gazette. +
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Century-Baseball-1839-1939-/370511002543 +
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originally published in 1985 or 1987 +
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paperback edition, 1991 +
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published in book form, 1996 +
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reprint -- original publication 1898 +
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reprinted by Amereon, 1993. +
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reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1984 +
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reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000 +
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reprinted by McFarland, 2001 +
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reprinted by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983 +
America’s National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginnings, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball +
reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1992 +
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reprinted in 1967 by Amo +
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Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing and Yachting Clubs of the United States +
reprinted in 2005 as Peverelly's National Game, John Freyer and Mark Rucker, eds., Arcadia +
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republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975 +
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revised several times since; most recently published in Total Baseball, 8th ed. (Sport Classic Books, 2004) +
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revision of the 1952 edition +
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this April 1961 issue carries 9 articles on IL baseball in the past, mostly during the 20th century. +
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translated from Hungarian 'Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye' +