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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 +
D
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 +
B
From an EBay listing, 9/25/2006 +
Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013. +
E
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. +
A
Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005. +
B
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. +
B
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. +
B
Not assessed as of Nov. 2013 +
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Not evaluated. +
B
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. +
B
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. +
B
Oxford University Press printed a later edition in 1989. +
C
Pages 1-8 of this chapter cover ballplaying prior to the founding of Louisville National League in 1876. +
B
Pages 1-9 supply the context for the rise of pro baseball in Chicago and the surrounding area. +
C
Pages 14 ff trace evidence on early modern baseball clubs in Pha. +
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Private publication +
B
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 +
B
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. +