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- 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)