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18th-Century Children Playing Base Ball
The First Worcester Edition of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly includes this picture and description of eighteenth-century base ball.Click on the image to view an expanded version.
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Chadwick's American Baseball Manual
The growth of baseball in the years following the Civil War was given added impetus by the rise of cheap, mass-produced books. Publishers helped standardize the rules and regulations of the sport by issuing playing guides and yearbooks that traveled from the large cities to the smallest hamlet...
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Fight Announcement

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History of Colored Base Ball
Sol White published an account of his experiences in his book, History of Colored Base Ball.
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Hoover Letter to U.S. Senator Fess, Page 3

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Hoover Letter to U.S. Senator Fess, Page 4

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Hoover to U.S. Senator Fess, Page 1

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Jackie Robinson Comic Book
"Jackie Robinson comic book." Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, July 1951. Vol. 1, no. 5. By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s, Library of Congress.  
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Location of Elis

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National Association of Baseball Players, 1857-1870
Before the onset of professional baseball, there existed a myriad of teams and players going back to the 1840s. This book, written by Marshall D. Wright, provides complete team statistics, game scores and batting and pitching statistics for these teams and players.  Published by McFarland a...
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