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22 issues
1860-1881
A compendium of the game, comprising elementary instructions of this American game of ball, together with the Revised Rules and...
/ A compendium of the game, comprising elementary instructions of this American game of ball, together with the Revised Rules and Regulations for 1860, rules for the formation of clubs, names of the officers and delegates to the general convention
7 issues
1866-1872
Henry Chadwick was a sports journalist and leading promoter of early baseball. He regularly wrote about baseball and helped develop...
/ Henry Chadwick was a sports journalist and leading promoter of early baseball. He regularly wrote about baseball and helped develop standard rules for the game. Chadwick's reference helped teach the game to interested audiences and set rules for teams to follow. The twenty-four clubs who competed in the 1867 World's Tournament of Base Ball, held in Detroit, used it as the official rulebook.
1 issues
1868-1868
First clothbound baseball book. How to learn, play and teach the game. Sketches of noted plaers, box scores...
/ First clothbound baseball book. How to learn, play and teach the game. Sketches of noted plaers, box scores of notable games of the previous ten years.
18 issues
1868-1885
Publishing players' averages beginning in 1872, it was the official guide of the National Association from 1872 to 1875, the...
/ Publishing players' averages beginning in 1872, it was the official guide of the National Association from 1872 to 1875, the National League in 1876, and for amateur baseball from 1872 to 1876. It ended publication following its 1885 edition, when Henry Chadwick retired as editor.
5 issues
1870-1889
Compiled by Chadwick in 1874, but not issued and updated until the 1880s....
/ Compiled by Chadwick in 1874, but not issued and updated until the 1880s.
1 issues
1875-1875
The small, 108-page volume begins with defining the umpire’s duties, and then includes the complete rules of the game. However,...
/ The small, 108-page volume begins with defining the umpire’s duties, and then includes the complete rules of the game. However, after each rule, Chadwick offers specific instruction for umpires regarding their correct interpretation, including examples of situations that may occur and how they should be properly handled. In Chadwick’s introduction, he notes the need for such a guide: “The [umpire] position has become one requiring almost as much special training and instruction to excel in it as that of the most important field position in the game. Indeed, it is far easier to find a fitting occupant for the leading position in a first class professional nine than it is to find a suitable candidate for the onerous position of Umpire.” The book features a few advertising pages at the end, as well as a number of score sheets, two of which record the results of a game (local teams).
62 issues
1878-1939
Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured...
/ Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation
8 issues
1885-1921
Batting, baserunning, pitching, fielding, catching, signals. Tips by major league stars, photos and rules....
/ Batting, baserunning, pitching, fielding, catching, signals. Tips by major league stars, photos and rules.
1 issues
1893-1893
From The People's Handbook Series. Containing Official Rules for playing baseball, football, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc....
/ From The People's Handbook Series. Containing Official Rules for playing baseball, football, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc.
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1940
During their last two years of publication, the Reach and Spalding Guides were combined into a single edition....
/ During their last two years of publication, the Reach and Spalding Guides were combined into a single edition.
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1942
When Sporting News halted printing of the long running Sporting News Record Book in 1942, it replaced it with the...
/ When Sporting News halted printing of the long running Sporting News Record Book in 1942, it replaced it with the Sporting News Guide in 1943, a companion publication to the Sporting News Register, which began publication in 1940.