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- Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South + (Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013.)
- Early Baseball in Wahington, DCCountry=US + (Identifying information to be recovered)
- Email messasge, 2005 --Pre-Major Leaguers in LouisianaCountry=US + (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.)
- The Philadelphia Cricket Club, 1854-1954 + (Information form an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.)
- A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953 + (Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005.)
- Baseball in New Haven + (Information from an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.)
- Baseball in Catawba County NC + (Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006)
- Baseball in Portsmouth + (Information from an EBay posting, 10/31/2006. Pictorial History)
- Seventy-five Years on Louisville Diamonds (booklet) + (Information taken from an EBay offering in 2005.)
- 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.)
- Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years + (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.)
- Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball + (Most of this book is reported to cover the 1870s.)
- Baseball in San Diego:From the Pares to Petco + (Mostly a book of photographs, reportedly.)
- Haymakers and Daisycutters: Troy and the National Pastime + (No references appear in the 12-page section of the facsimile kindly provided by John Thorn.)
- Baseball in Indianapolis + (Not assessed as of Nov. 2013)
- A Question of Territory. Troy’s Baseball Heritage + (Not evaluated.)
- Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a GameCountry=US + (Not evaluated.)
- 19th Century Baseball in Chicago + (Not evaluated.)
- Knickerbocker Score Books, Game Books, and Meeting Logs + (On microfilm from NYPL; SABR has a copy of the set as well as the Chadwick and Spalding and Wright scrapbooks and diaries.)
- The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race + (Orig: Greuel der Verwustung des Menschlichen Geschlechts.)
- Baseball in Cincinnati: A History + (Originally published in 1908. Pages 17-92 cover the growth of base ball from 1860 to the formations of the Red Stockings in 1869.)
- US Infantry Faces Cavalry in WY in 1876 + (Our lead on this sketchy report is in a 9/10/2013 email from Joel Dinda.)
- Baseball: The Early Years + (Oxford University Press printed a later edition in 1989.)
- Chapter 1: Beginnings. From Amateur Teams of Disgrace in the National League + (Pages 1-8 of this chapter cover ballplaying prior to the founding of Louisville National League in 1876.)
- Baseball in Old Chicago + (Pages 1-9 supply the context for the rise of pro baseball in Chicago and the surrounding area.)
- Chapter 10. Baseball in Philadelphia (of 'Baseball's First Inning') + (Pages 14 ff trace evidence on early modern baseball clubs in Pha.)
- Early Club and Village Cricket + (Private publication)
- Balldom: A History of Baseball + (Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999)
- 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.)
- Massachusetts Baseball and Cricket, 1840-1870 + (R. Story, ed.)
- 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)
- Richter’s History and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport + (Reprinted by McFarland, 2005)
- Base Ball, 1845-1871 + (Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974)
- Bat and Ball; A New Book of Cricket + (Reprinted in 1960 by Sprotsman's Book Club)
- That Strange Yankee Game, Wicket + (Reprinted in Bristol Connecticut, City Printing Company, Hartford, 1907)
- How Baseball Began + (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.)
- Base-ball: How to Become a Player + (SABR reprint, 1993)
- Baseball in Geneva + (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.)
- 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.)
- Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900 + (The first two chapters (30 pages) cover the period before the Civil War.)
- Grace, Grit, and Growling: The Hartford Dark Blues Base Ball Club, 1874-1877 + (The initial 5 pages describe the runup to the foundation of the Dark Blues.)
- Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime by the Sea. + (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.)
- Glory Days of Summer; the History of Baseball in Oklahoma. + (This 470-page book evidently traces the OK careers of ballplayers. The EBay offeror did not mention that it covers earliest play there.)
- Baseball in Eau Claire (Pictoral History) + (This book has no been examined as of 11/2013.)
- Bridgeport Baseball + (This book has not been assessed. It is presented as a pictorial history.)
- Baseball in Florida + (This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying.)
- Batter Up: Ft. Wayne's Baeball History 1862-1967 + (This book has not been evaluated n Nov. 2013. Available information is taken from an EBay offer in 2006.)
- A History of Baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area + (This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013.)
- Baseball in Columbus + (This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history.)
- Baseball in Minnesota: A Definitive History + (This book has not been scrutinized in Nov. 2013.)
- The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball + (This book of fiction, based on factual acc … 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.</br></br>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).2), page 177 ff (see especially page 182).)
- 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)
- Draft Chapter on Beginnings of Ballplaying in KY + (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.)
- Nestor of Ball Players + (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.)
- The Hard-Ball Game + (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.)
- The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870 + (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.)
- Abner Graves: The Man who Brought Baseball to Cooperstown + (This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011).)
- Henderson, Cartwright, and the 1953 US Congress + (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.)
- Juab County (UT) Information for Students + (This site describes a 5-hour game played b … 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."</br></br>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.pi. No sources for the account are given.)
- 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.")
- The Doubleday Myth and Texas Baseball + (This source has not been procured for evaluation.)
- A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach + (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.)
- Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century + (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.)
- 'The Making of a New York Folk Hero' + (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.)
- Peverelly's National Game: Images of Baseball + (a reprinting of the chapter "The National Game," from Charles Peverelly's 1866 self-published book, American Pastimes)
- Francis Willughby’s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes + (based on a 1670s manuscript)
- The Story of Baseball in Words and Pictures + (first edition was 1947)
- The Origin and History of Baseball + (first of two parts)
- The Observer's Book of Cricket + (first published 1973)
- How I Pitched the First Curve + (first published in 1985 or 1987. J. Thorn, editor)
- The Ball Players' Chronicle + (http://www.amazon.com/Sept-19-1867-Ball-Players-Chronicle/dp/B0039C4FM0 also New England Base Ball Players Gazette.)
- A Century of Baseball + (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Century-Baseball-1839-1939-/370511002543)
- The Men Who Invented Shortstop + (originally published in 1985 or 1987)
- Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball + (paperback edition, 1991)
- American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes + (published in book form, 1996)
- The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2 + (reprint -- original publication 1898)
- A Ball Player’s Career + (reprinted by Amereon, 1993.)
- Sphere and Ash: History of Base Ball + (reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1984)
- The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements + (reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000)
- How Baseball Began: The Long Overlooked Truth about the Birth of Baseball + (reprinted by McFarland, 2001)
- American Baseball: From Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System + (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)
- The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1915 - 1928Country= + (reprinted in 1967 by Amo)
- 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)
- American Sports (1785-1835) + (republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975)
- The True Father of Baseball + (revised several times since; most recently published in Total Baseball, 8th ed. (Sport Classic Books, 2004))
- Next Man In: A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs + (revision of the 1952 edition)
- Baseball in Illinois + (this April 1961 issue carries 9 articles on IL baseball in the past, mostly during the 20th century.)
- Collection of Hungarian Folk Games + (translated from Hungarian 'Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye')