Baseball

New York: New York Yankees, 1983. Original Photos . Paper. An amazing collection of 23 small 4" x 5" black and white photos of many of the 1983-84 New York Yankees baseball team that have been individually signed by them. The names of the players have been written on the bottom of the white margins. The players included are; RUDY MAY, DAVE RIGHETTI, JAY HOWELL, JOHN MONTEFUSCO, LOU PINELLA, DAVE WINFIELD, LARRY MILBOURNE, WILLIE RANDOLPH, ROY SMALLEY, DON BAYLOR, ANDRE ROBERTSON, BERT CAMPANERIS, KEN GRIFFEY, DALE MURRAY, RON GUIDRY, GRAIG NETTLES, GEORGE FRAZIER, MATT KEOUGH, RICH GOSSAGE, BOB SHIRLEY, SHANE RAWLEY, BILLY MARTIN AND YOGGI BERRA. Also included is an 8" x 10" group portrait of the 1983 team. Fine. Also included is a vg paper copy of "N.Y. Yankees Collectibles" A price guide to memorabilia for America's favorite tearm, by the stff of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. The book has prices for all sorts of memorbilia and is illus. with many color photos.… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A modest stain on the rear board else near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a small corresponding stain on the rear panel and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Inscribed by the author: "To John Orban with best wishes of Freddy and Walter R. Brooks." Our favorite title among the highly collectible series of books about Freddy, an intelligent pig-detective. Freddy is embroiled in the search for six missing Martians who are being forced to travel the country as a barnstorming baseball team. A significant highspot in porcine-detective literature, and exceptionally scarce signed.

Chicago, Ill: J. Regan & Co, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 93pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages a bit browned with small nicks and tears at the extremities, an attractive, very good copy of a fairly fragile volume. A children's book on baseball containing various poems, songs, anecdotes, and other material. *McCue* pg. 82.

New York: The Morning Newspaper Baseball League, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cord-tied thick boards, die-cut into the shape of a baseball mitt. [114]pp. Elaborately illustrated souvenir volume. Some small scrapes on the front board, else near fine. Enumerates the various teams that played in the tournament. Rare. Not in *OCLC*, and we've never seen another copy.

[Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1938. Softcover. Fine. Typescript. [38]pp., and [3]pp. Black three-ring binder with typescript pages, printed rectos only; several cardstock separators, one with a typed label bearing the title; and a rear pocket with three additional typescript sheets, also printed rectos only. The binder is somewhat worn at the spine ends but the pages are fresh with scattered corrections, near fine or better. An unpublished account of the wondrous fictional baseball player, "Slugger" Sutton, based on a real small-town baseball league in Kickapoo River Valley in West Central Wisconsin. A charming tale of a small-town baseball legend who eschewed big league success for the ardor of his hometown fans. Further details available upon request.

[Chicago]: H.T. Webb, 32 S. Clark St, 1911. Unbound. Near Fine. Mammoth plate gelatin silver portrait photograph. Image size approximately 19" x 14½" on a 22" x 19" thick card mount. Hand captioned beneath the image: "Grace Presbyterian Base Ball Team Champions Presbyterian Brotherhood League Season 1911." Toning and small nicks on the edges of the mount only, lettering is rubbed but easily readable, the image is fine. Spectacular portrait of 15 African-American men, all but three in uniform, with trophy, mitts, and a catcher's mask. One of the three men in street clothing is on crutches. All members of an African-American amateur baseball team from Chicago (references to the photographer Webb appear in various Chicago sources; he also seems to have photographed some of the Chicago White Sox players). Grace Presbyterian was established in 1888 as a storefront African-American church that existed until around 1917. The Presbyterian Brotherhood was a men's club meant to promote "masculine… Read More

Englewood Cliifs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very important ASSOCIATION copy, BELONGING TO JACKIE ROBINSON! LAID-IN IS AN IMMACULATE PRENTICE-HALL REVIEW SLIP, ADDRESSED TO JACKIE ROBINSON VIA HIS NEW YORK AGENT. An unusually clean, crisp copy to boot of the 1970 1st edition of this highly-regarded, very influential history of the Negro Leagues. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 406 pgs. For obvious reasons, it's all-but-impossible to overstate the significance of this copy.

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 303 pages; VG/VG; spine is white with green, black, and blue lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut, '$7.50', has mild wear along the top and bottom edges, has minor discoloration; binding has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, has bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have occasional minor pen markings; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1321406. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York, Ticknor and Fields, 1988, large format hardcover (9" x 12"), 282 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould on the title page. Inscription reads "For Stephen Jay Gould with all good wishes - Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light spine-end and corner nicks and bumps. The premier sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written presents what has been described as "easily the best pictorial biography of the Sultan of Swat...from boyhood days in his father's saloon in Baltimore, his formative years at St. Mary's, his early playing days in Baltimore and Providence, his rise to stardom as a member of the Boston Red Sox, the legendary years… Read More

BEAUTIFULLY SIGNED BY JOE DIMAGGIO directly to the half-title page and PROFESSIONALLY AUTHENTICATED by PSA/DNA. Includes their ironclad Certificate of Authenticity. NOT inscribed. An attractive book club edition in VG+/VG condition: pristine text, good color and sharp corners on boards, mild shelfwear on dust jacket. Looks terrific with a new mylar cover added. Extremely scarce with an authenticated autograph! Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

New York: Putnam's Sons, (1955). First edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. One of the scarcer titles in Putnam's Sports Series "The Big League Library" and "wholesome sports reading for baseball fans, young and old" per Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick (as quoted on the jacket). Very nearly fine with only minor shelf wear; in very good spine-toned and somewhat edge-rubbed dust jacket with light creasing, shallow chip at head of spine, and internal tape repair to few tears. Still, bright and attractive.

McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2006. Softcover. Like New. Revised and expanded. Latest edition of Myron J. Smith, Jr.'s massive, 4-volume bibliography of baseball, the largest and most comprehensive print bibliography on any American Sport. Over 57,000 entries. Vol. 1: Reference, General History, Leagues and Teams. 472 pp. Vol. 2: Youth/College/Amateur, Rules and Techniques, Individual Biography (Aaron-Encarnacion). 473-856 pp. Vol. 3: Individual Biography (Engel-Oxley). 857-1292 pp. Vol. 4: Individual Biography (Oxley-Zwissig), Journals Examined, Index. Four volumes at 9 7/8" x 6 7/8" each. Tight, immaculate copies. Extremities crisp. Faint, small corner creases to two volumes. Unmarked front to back. A beautiful set of baseball's masterpiece of scholarship. Inquire for shipping on International sales. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

1903 1ed Spalding Baseball Guide Nap Lajoie Mathewson CY YOUNG Honus Wagner

Spalding 'Official Baseball Guides' are some of the most popular early 20th-century baseball memorabilia on the market. Spalding published a yearly baseball guide that included team photos, portraits and action shots of individual ball players, player statistics, a history of the game, and extensive sections on rules and gameplay.
The 1903 edition of 'Baseball Guide' is from the era of some of the most iconic players of the dead-ball era including Nap Lajoie, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Cy Young.

Item number: #20030
Price: $550
American Sports Pub
Spalding's official baseball guide.
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1903. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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286, [98]
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover
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Visible repair along spine
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)
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1903 1ed Spalding Baseball Guide HOF Nap Lajoie Mathewson CY YOUNG Honus Wagner

Spalding 'Official Baseball Guides' are some of the most popular early 20th-century baseball memorabilia on the market. Spalding published a yearly baseball guide that included team photos, portraits and action shots of individual ball players, player statistics, a history of the game, and extensive sections on rules and gameplay.
The 1903 edition of 'Baseball Guide' is from the era of some of the most iconic players of the dead-ball era including Nap Lajoie, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Cy Young.

Item number: #20595
Price: $599
American Sports Pub
Spalding's official baseball guide.
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1903. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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286, [98]
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Heavily illustrated throughout
· Provenance: Handwritten – Chas. W. Colby
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover; secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Hardcover. New York: Putnam, 1953. (Putnam Sports Series: The Big League Library). 1st edition, 1st printing. 247 pp. All-time roster of umpires, index. Near Fine book (no markings to text, name and date on front pastedown under dust jacket flap covered with black marker) / Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped, 1" tear to front flap, wear to edges of dust jacket, especially to spine extremities, v-shaped chip to top edge of rear dj panel at spine). A clean, solid copy.