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Richter, F. C. (1909) A Brief History of Baseball. Sporting Life Publications.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Doubleday, A. (1939) A Century of Baseball. Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Printing Company. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Century-Baseball-1839-1939-/370511002543)
Lester, J. A. (1951) A Century of Philadelphia Cricket. University of Pennsylvania Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Butler, S. H. (1946) A Concise History of Cricket. Cricket Book Society.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, P. (2006) A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. Chicago, Ivan Dee.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Staats, Richard (2003) A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and the Silver Ball. (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.")
Clark, J. (2003) A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
unknown (1985) A History of Baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area. unknown. (This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013.)
Ross, G. (1972) A History of Cricket. London, Arthur Barket.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Green, B. (1988) A History of CricketCountry=. London, Barrie and Jenkins.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Petula, Nickolas (1992) A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953. (spiral bound). (Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005.)
Twohey, George (1897) A History of the Boston Baseball Club. (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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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/
Gonzalez, C. (2007) "A New Perspective on Mexican Baseball Origins." Base Ball. 1(2): 64-72.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Block, D. (2008) "A Peek into the Pocket-Book." Base Ball. 2(1): 17-28.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Altherr, T. L. (2000) "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine. 8(2): 15-49.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Chadwick, H. (1881) A Plea for Base-Ball. New York Times: 5.
Pietruzsa, D. (1992) A Question of Territory. Troy’s Baseball Heritage. Troy, NY, Society for American Baseball Research: 13. (Not evaluated.)
Hershberger, R. (2007) "A Reconstruction of Philadelphia Town Ball." Base Ball. 1(2): 28-43.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Unknown (1992) A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach. 26-page booklet. 26. (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.)
Birley, D. (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Adelman, M. A. (1986) A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870. University of Illinois Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Elston, G. (2001) A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845 - 2000. Halcyon Press.
Guttman, A. (1988) A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports. University of North Carolina Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Levine, P. (1985) A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. Oxford University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
MacDougall, Hugh (2011) Abner Graves: The Man who Brought Baseball to Cooperstown. 44. (This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011).)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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
Voigt, D. Q. (1976) America Through Baseball. Chicago, Nelson-Hall.
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
Voigt, D. Q. (1966) American Baseball: From Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System. Oklahoma University Press. (reprinted by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Chadwick, H. (1868) American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes. New York: 2. (published in book form, 1996)
Brewster, P. G. (1953) American Nonsinging Games. University of Oklahoma Press.
Holliman, J. (1931) American Sports (1785-1835). Durhan, NC, Seeman Press. (republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Rader, B. G. (1983) American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators. Prentice-Hall.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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
Betts, J. R. (1974) America’s Sporting Heritage: 1850-1950. Addison Wesley.
Blaine, D. P. (1840) An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. London, A. Stottswoods.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Viney, N., and Neil Grant (1978) An Illustrated History of Ball Games. London, Book Club Associates.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Krout, J. A. (1929) Annals of American Sport. New Haven, Yale University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Read, W. W. (1897) Annals of Cricket. Sampson, Low, Marston.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Miller, S. G. (2004) Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. University of California Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hardwick, Caleb () Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia (website).
read online: http://arkbaseball.com
Arlott, J. a. T., F. (1977) Arlott and Trueman on Cricket. London, British Broadcasting Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Casway, J. (1992) "At The Old Ball Game." Temple Review.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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
Manchester, H. (1991) Ball Games: 1800-1860. Four Centuries of Sport in America: 1490-1890. Lyon, Mississippi, Derrydale Press: 121-130.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Henderson, R. W. (1947) Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games. New York, Rockport Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Sutter, L. M. (2009) Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South. Jefferson NC, NcFarland. (Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013.)
Morland, G. (1914) Balldom: A History of Baseball. (Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Benson, M. (1989) Ballparks of North America: 1845 to Present. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Dunning, E., and Kenneth Sheard (1979) Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players. Oxford, Martin Robinson.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1859) Base Ball - Who Plays the Genuine Game?. Buffalo Morning Express.
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. (Essays on each of 40 early clubs in downstate New York, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts, with an average length of about 8 pages.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter, et. al., editors (2012) Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 354. (Essays for each of 68 early ballclubs outside the metropolitan area of New York. The average essay is about 5 pages in length.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter, et.al. (2012) Base Ball Pioneers: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1887) "Base Ball Reminiscences: Part I - The Evolution of Base Ball." National Daily Base Ball Gazette.
Shiffert, J. (2006) Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 288. (The first two chapters (30 pages) cover the period before the Civil War.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
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. (The first 50 pages include ballplaying befor3 1870, including game summaries from a number of places in NE Ohio.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Church, S. R. (1902) Base Ball, 1845-1871. San Francisco. (Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974)
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.
Altherr, Thomas (2009) "Base is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's base from the 13th to 20th Centuries." Base Ball. 3(1): 67-79.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1870) "Base-Ball as a Pastime and as a Business." Spirit of the Times. 23: 235.
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
Anon. (1869) "Base-ball: Review of the Season of ’68, With a Chapter on the Rise, Decline, and Future Prospects of the Game." Spirit of the Times. 19: 359.
Orem, P. (1961) Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena, CA, private printing.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Menke, F. G. (1944) Baseball (Menke). Encyclopedia of Sports. A. S. Barnes: 55ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Miers, E. S. (1967) Baseball (Miers). Grosset and Dunlap.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Smith, R. (1949) Baseball (Smith). Simon and Schuster.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Menke, F. G. (1947) Baseball -- Major. The New Encyclopedia of Sports. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company: 77ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Block, D. (2005) Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game. University of Nebraska Press.
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.
Collection, E. C. C. (2000) Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from its Beginning. Castle Books.
Morris, P. (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan. University of Michigan Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Basebnall in Michigan. U of Michigan Press: 362.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Levine, P., Ed. (1989) Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research. Meckler Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Agen, M. (1927) "Baseball Known in Old World Under Various Names." Baseball. 38: 521.
Nash, P. J. (2003) Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. Arcadia.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peter () Baseball Pioneers.
Grossinger, R. (1977) Baseball Variants. Baseball I Gave You the Best Years of My Life. Oakland, North Atlantic Books: 21-24.
Bartlett, A. (1951) Baseball and Mr. Spalding: The History and Romance of Baseball. Farrar, Straus and Young.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Daniel, W. Harrison (2003) Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game. 1884-2000. Jefferson NC, McFarland. (A snippet view of this book indicates that an initial chapter of at least 12 pages covers local base ball prior to 1884.)
Henderson, R. W. (1939) "Baseball and Rounders." Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 43(4): 303-314.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Durso, J. (1986) Baseball and the American Dream. The Sporting News.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Sarchet, C. M. (1908) "Baseball as Played By the Indians." Baseball. 1: 26-28.
Sumner, J. (1989) Baseball at Salisbury Prison Camp. Baseball History. Westport, CT: 19-27.
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
Smith, R. (1961) Baseball in America: An Illustrated History of Our National Pastime. Holt Rinehart and Winston.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bready, J. (1998) Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years. Johns Hopkins University Press: 230. (Chapter 1, "The Beginnings," pages 3 - 14, covers the first clubs and the 1860s.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Kirsch, G. B. (2003) Baseball in Blue and Gray. Princeton University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peeler, Tim, and B. McLawhorn (2004) Baseball in Catawba County NC. Arcadia: 128. (Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006)
Ellard, H. (2004) Baseball in Cincinnati: A History. McFarland: 199. (Originally published in 1908.
Pages 17-92 cover the growth of base ball from 1860 to the formations of the Red Stockings in 1869.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Tootle, James (2002) Baseball in Columbus. Arcadia. (This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history.)
Poillucci, J. V. (2001) Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a GameCountry=US. Routledge Books. (Not evaluated.)
Christopherson, Jason (2003) Baseball in Eau Claire (Pictoral History). Arcadia. (This book has no been examined as of 11/2013.)
McCarthy, Kevin (1996) Baseball in Florida. Pineapple Press. (This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying.)
Myers, Minor (1988) Baseball in Geneva. Geneva Historical Society: 22. (The first 4 pages of this mimeo booklet cover pre-1870 ballplaying.)