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The Amazing 1889 Babes, John Phillips, Capital
Publishing.
American Baseball: From the Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System, David Q. Voigt, Penn
State UP, 1983.
America’s National Game,
Albert
Spalding, University of Nebraska Press, 1992 reprint.
America's Sporting Heritage,
1850-1950, John Richard Betts, Addison-Wesley, 1974.
The Art of Base Ball Batting, Henry Chadwick, A.G.
Spalding Co., 1885.
The Art
of Fielding: With a Chapter on Base Running, Henry Chadwick, A.G.
Spalding Co., 1885.
Bad Bill
Dahlen: The Rollicking Times of an Early Baseball
Star, Lyle Spatz,
McFarland, 2004.
Makes the case for Dahlen to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Balldom, George Moreland, Horton Publishing, 1989
reprint.
Ballparks
of North America…1845 to Present, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1991.
Combined with details about ballparks, this
book presents some interesting nineteenth century sidelights.
The
Ballplayers, Mike Shatzkin, ed., Arbor House,
1990.
A
Ball Player’s Career, Adrian C. Anson, Era Publishing, 1900.
Seminal baseball
biography of the legendary player and manager of the Chicago White Stockings.
Banana Bats and
Ding-Dong Balls: A Century of Unique Baseball Inventions, Dan Gutman,
Macmillan, 1995.
Baseball: A History Of America’s Game, Benjamin G. Rader,
University of Illinois Press 1994.
Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American
Team Sports, 1838-1872, George B. Kirsch, University of Illinois
Press, 2007.
Baseball Before We Knew It, David Block, Nebraska, 2005.
The
Baseball Chronology, James Charlton, ed., Macmillan, 1991.
The Baseball Cyclopedia, Ernest Lanigan, Horton Publishing, 1988 reprint.
Baseball
From the Newspaper Accounts, Preston Orem, 1966.
A popular account of
nineteenth century baseball with undocumented facts which should be used with
caution by serious researchers.
Base
Ball: How To Become A Player, John Montgomery Ward,
Society For American Baseball Research, 1993 reprint.
Ballplayer-lawyer-labor
activist Ward's treatment on training, theory, strategy, and positional
playing. Positively a gem.
Baseball
in Baltimore: The First 100 Years, James Bready, Johns
Hopkins University
Press, 1998.
Baseball
in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the
Civil War, George B. Kirsch, Princeton
University Press, 2003.
As the Civil War raged, America developed their national
sport. Stories of early players and the prison-in-baseball
issue.
Baseball in Bridgeport, from Barnum
to the Bluefish, Mike Roer, Academy Group, 1998.
Base Ball in Cincinnati, Harry Ellard, Johnson &
Hardin, 1907.
Baseball in 1889:
Players vs. Owners, Daniel M. Pearson, Bowling Green University Popular Press,
1993.
Extraordinary account of
two blood and guts pennant races and the growing labor unrest that followed the
season.
Baseball
in Philadelphia:
A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900, John
Shiffert, McFarland, 2006.
Philadelphia was a very important city in the rise of the early
game of baseball.
Baseball in Washington, Frank Ceresi and Mark Rucker, Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
Baseball
in the Afternoon, Robert Smith, Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Largely anecdotal, time-travel
through baseball's legendary games and players. Contains 19th century text.
Baseball Pioneers: Ratings
of Nineteenth Century Players, Charles F. Faber, McFarland, 1997.
Baseball: The Early
Years, Harold Seymour, Oxford UP, 1960.
Groundbreaking definitive
early study of baseball history from an economic, cultural, historical
perspective.
Baseball: The People’s
Game, Harold Seymour with Dorothy Z. Seymour, Oxford UP, 1990.
Prize-winning
volume, the first study of baseball as played by everyday Americans: working
people, boys,
military players, college players, women, blacks, Indians, and prisoners.
Baseball’s Best Pitchers
1876-1992, Ralph Horton, Horton Publ. Co., 1993.
Baseball
Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan, Peter C. Morris, University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Study of embryonic game in Michigan, 1850's to 1875
including info about early use of fielding gloves.
Base Ball on the Western Reserve: The Early Game
in Cleveland and Northwest Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town,
1865-1900, James M. Egan Jr., McFarland, 2007.
Baseball’s First
Indian: Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland
Indian, Ed Rice, Tide-Mark Press, 2003.
Baseball’s
First Stars, Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et al,
eds. Society For American Baseball Research, 1996.
Companion volume to Nineteenth Century
Stars, this one includes Hall of Famers, and bios
of longer length
than its predecessor.
Baseball’s Radical for
All Seasons: A Biography of John Montgomery Ward, David Stevens,
Scarecrow, 1999.
Biography of arguably the
most important man in 19th century baseball whose influence resonates today.
The
Beer and Whisky League, David Nemec, Lyons
& Burford, 1994.
All about the American
Association, which rivaled the National League from 1882-1891.
Before the Curse: The
Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918, Troy Soos,
Parnassus, 1997.
An excellent overview of
early New England baseball. Good discussion of all major league teams from
the six state region. Several of the most accomplished amateur/semi-pro
teams of the era are also highlighted.
Before
the World Series: Pride, Profits and Baseball's First Championships, Larry G. Bowman,
Northern Illinois, 2003.
Best Bet in Beantown, G.S. Rowe, Pocol Press, 2003.
A base ball mystery surrounding the exploits of Will Beaman, in the employ of the 1897 Boston Beaneaters. Star short stop
Herman Long has just been beaten and left
for dead in the locker room. Filled with romance, red
herrings, exciting game
reportage, heart-pounding chases, and shady characters that dive deeply into
the sordid world of 19th century base ball.
The Bill James
Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James, Villard,
1986.
Stats, stories, analysis,
and insight by one of the master baseball writers living today.
Biographical
Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood, 1987.
Superior work containing
many 19th century ballplayer bios.
Biographical
Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball: 1989-1992 Supplement, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood, 1992.
An update of Porter's
previous biographical book.
Biographical
Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball: 1992-1995 Supplement, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood, 1995.
A further supplement to Porter's
biographical book.
Blackguards and Red
Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871-1875, William J. Ryczek, McFarland, 1992.
The standard work on the
National Association, the precursor to the National League. Detailed accounts of the teams,
players, and personalities of baseball's first professional league.
A Brief History of Baseball, Francis Richter,
Sporting Life Publ., 1909.
Cap
Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early
Years, Howard W. Rosenberg,
Tile Books, 2003.
The first book to star
Cap Anson since his ghostwritten biography in 1900, and the most definitive
writing to date on the 1880 and 1890
Chicago presidencies of Albert G. Spalding and James A.
Hart. The
ultimate resource on 19th century discipline of players.
Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U.S. Team Sport’s First Media Sensation and Baseball’s Original Casey at the Bat, Howard W. Rosenberg, Tile Books, 2004. The definitive word on baseball’s ties to the theater through 1900, and doubling as the definitive bio of Kelly. Cap Anson 3: Muggsy John McGraw and the Tricksters: Baseball's Fun Age of Rule Bending, Howard W. Rosenberg, Tile Books, 2005. Everything you’d ever want to know about the extent of tricky and dirty play in early baseball. Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson of Chicago, Howard W. Rosenberg, Tile Books, 2006. Argues that Uncle Anse drew the wittiest coverage in print over a long career and post-career, of any player.
Cap Anson: The Grand Old Man of Baseball, David L. Fleitz, McFarland, 2005.
Extraordinarily influential player and spokesman and the game’s first superstar.
Chief
Sockalexis and the 1897 Cleveland Indians, John Phillips, Capital
Publishing, 1991.
Many early baseball watchers called Sockalexis, a man debilitated by alcohol, perhaps the
greatest player ever.
One of the earliest
athlete-dying-young tragedies.
Chris Von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns,
J.
Thomas Hetrick, Scarecrow, 1999.
The only full-scale biography of the
colorful owner who solidified baseball's marriage to selling beer at the park
and games played on Sundays.
City Games: The
Evolution of American Society and the Rise of Sports, Steven A. Reiss, University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Cleveland Baseball: The 1894
Spiders, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1991.
The Cleveland Indian, Luke Salisbury, The Smith, 1992.
Fictional, speculative account patterned on
the life of the original Cleveland Indian Louis Sockalexis,
whose brief career
was cut short by alcohol.
Columbus Baseball History,
1876-1981, Charles Westlake.
"COMMY": The
Life Story of Charles A. Comiskey, G. W. Axelson, Reilly & Lee, 1919.
Biography of one of the
early game's hellions and later infamous owner of the Chicago White Sox.
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball,
Norman Macht, University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
The Creation of American
Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-1872, George Kirsch,
University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Cricket in America, 1710-2000, P. David Sentance, McFarland, 2006.
Explanation of the connection between cricket and early
baseball.
The
Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, Jonathan Fraser Light, McFarland, 1997.
Cy Young: A Baseball
Life, Reed Browning, University
of Massachusetts Press,
2000.
He must have been doing some decent hurling
to have pitching's greatest award named after him. Here's the story of the
outstanding armed Denton True
"Cy" (for Cyclone) Young whose career bridged the 19th and 20th
centuries.
The Detroit Tribune’s Epitome of Base Ball, Detroit Tribune Publ., 1887.
Diamonds
in the Rough, John Bowman and Joel Zoss,
Contemporary Publishing, 1996.
Diamonds of the North: A
Concise History of Baseball in Canada, William Humber, Oxford
UP, 1995.
Diamonds: The Evolution
of the Ballpark, Michael Gershman, Houghton
Mifflin, 1995.
Double Play in Beantown, G.S. Rowe, Pocol Press, 2005.
The third installment in the Will Beaman Baseball
Mystery Series, this book picks up in 1901 with the protagonist testing
his baseball team loyalties between the National League Beaneaters
and the upstart American League entry Boston Pilgrims.
This time, the amateur detective Beaman feels
compelled to solve the murders of young women.
Early
Baseball and the Rise of the National League, Tom Melville, McFarland,
2001.
Early Dreams, David Nemec, Pocol Press, 2004.
This classic narrative provides a fictional
account of a young man struggling to become a regular player in Cincinnati.
With box scores; profiles
of baseball pioneers; and a robust, penetrating storyline.
The Early History of
Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland, 1858-1871, William Griffith, John
Cox, 1897.
Early Innings: A
Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908, Dean A. Sullivan,
University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
A document of the early
game using the game's early documents.
“Ee-Yah”:
The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer,
Jack Smiles, McFarland, 2005.
Shortstop Jennings excelled as a player on the 1890s
Baltimore Orioles and as manager with the early-century Tigers of Ty Cobb.
The 1898 Base-Ball Fe-As-Ko, Randall Beth Platt, Catbird Press, 2000.
The
1895 Cleveland
Spiders, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1990.
Elysian Fields: The
Birth of Baseball, Thomas Gilbert, Franklin Watts, 1995.
Well-done scholarly account of the game's earliest
days.
The Encyclopedia of
Baseball Cards, Vol I: 19th Century Cards,
Lew Lipset,
Centereach, 1983.
Encyclopedia
of Major League Baseball Teams, Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella, Harper Collins, 1993.
The
Fade-away, George Jansen, Pocol Press, 2007.
A Native American is fished out of the
water in this fanciful tale, and therein begins a wild ride through amateur
town
baseball in 1900 San Francisco.
Fall Classics of the
1890s, John Phillips, Capital Publishing.
The First Boys of Summer: The 1869-1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, Greg Rhodes and John Erardi, ---, 1994.
The Fix Is In: A History
of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals, Daniel E. Ginsberg,
McFarland, 1995.
Fleet Walker’s Divided
Heart, David W. Zang, University of Nebraska
Press, 1995.
The Forgotten
Championships, Jerry Lansche, McFarland, 1989.
Precursor volume to the much better
realized Glory Fades Away.
Former Major League Teams:
An Encyclopedia, Donald D. Jones, McFarland, 1995.
Foul Ball in Beantown, G.S. Rowe, Pocol
Press, 2006.
From Cartwright to
Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball, Ron McCulloch, Warwick Publ., 1998.
From Pastime to Passion:
Baseball and the Civil War, Patricia Millen, Heritage Books, 2001.
Game of Brawl - The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the
Battle for the 1897 Pennant, Bill Felber, University of Nebraska Press,
2007.
A Game of Inches, Peter Morris, Ivan R.
Dee, 2006.
Ghosts
in the Gallery at Cooperstown: Sixteen
Little-Known Members of the Hall of Fame, David L. Fleitz,
McFarland, 2004.
Many early luminaries are included: Bulkeley, Cummings, Burkett, Nichols, Wallace, Selee, and McPhee.
Glory Fades Away: The
Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered, Jerry Lansche, Taylor Publishing, 1991.
The finest look at early
baseball's championship games. Bristles with excitement and unusual oddities.
Grace, Grit and
Growling: The Hartford Dark Blues Base Ball Club,
1874-1877, David Arcidiacano, self-published, 2003.
The Great American
Baseball Team Book, David Nemec, New
American Library, 1992.
The Great Encyclopedia
of 19th Century Major League Baseball, David Nemec, Donald L. Fine Books, 1997.
Simply put, the
best and most comprehensive narrative and statistical study of the 19th century
game. A must own.
The Great Teams of
Baseball, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing, 1988 reprint.
Green Cathedrals, Philip J. Lowry, Addison
Wesley, 1992.
Arguably the book that
started the rash of books about stadia. And, still one of the finest.
Henry Chadwick: A Baseball Biography, Andrew
Schiff, McFarland, 2007.
Hero of the Heartland:
Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935, Robert Martin, Indiana University Press, 2002.
The Home Team: A Full
Century of Baseball in Baltimore, 1859-1959, A
Patriotic Story, James Bready, 1958.
Humorous
Stories of the Ball Field, T. P. Sullivan, M. Donahue, 1903.
An early master talent scout and manager tells some of his most ribald tales.
If I Never Get Back, Darryl Brock, Crown,
1990.
A fictional, rollicking
account of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional
team.
Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League
Baseball, Brian McDonald, Rodale Books, 2003.
The International
League: Year-by-Year Statistics, 1884-1953, Marshall D. Wright,
McFarland, 1998.
Jews and Baseball: Entering the American
Mainstream, 1871-1948, Burton A. Boxerman, McFarland, 2007.
John McGraw, Charles Alexander,
Viking, 1988.
July
2, 1903, Mike Sowell, Macmillan, 1992.
Biography of Ed Delahanty, from the
author of The Pitch That Killed.
The Krank: His Language and What It Means, Thomas Lawson, Rand
Avery, 1888.
One of the more bizarre efforts,
originally printed in the shape of a baseball. Contains incredibly quaint and
archaic language
of early baseball fans, then called
"cranks."
Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball, Robert P. Gelzheiser, McFarland, 2006.
Explores early history of the professional game, and
player-owner relationships, through the prism of the 1890 player rebellion.
The League That Failed, David Q. Voigt,
Scarecrow, 1998.
Legends
of Louisville…1876-1899, Philip Von Borries,
Turner Publishing, 1997.
Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping
Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball, Peter Morris, University of Nebraska Press,
2007.
Long Before the Dodgers:
Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884, James L. Terry,
McFarland, 2002.
The Louisville
Grays Scandal of 1877: The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League, William A. Cook,
McFarland, 2005.
What happened when four Louisville players were charged in this
scandal and what were the consequences?
Major Leagues, David Pietruscza, McFarland, 1991.
Middletown's Season in
the Sun, David Arcidiacono, Self
Published, 1999.
Detailed history of Connecticut's first
major league baseball team, the Middletown Mansfields
(1866-1872).
Recounts the Mansfields'
surprising rise from amateur factory team to the major leagues and their
struggle
to survive on that level against long odds.
MISFITS! Baseball’s
Worst Ever Team, J. Thomas Hetrick, Pocol Press, 1999.
Doomed to failure, the 1899 Cleveland
Spiders took the field. The result is hysterical and historical.
More Nineteenth Century
Stars, Frederick Ivor-Campbell, ed., The Society for American Baseball Research, 1995.
The
National Association of Baseball Players, 1857-1870, Marshall D. Wright,
McFarland, 2000.
The National Game:
Second Edition, (reprint of 1911) Alfred H. Spink, Southern Illinois
University Press, 2000.
The
National Pastime, John Thorn and Mark Rucker, eds., Society for American
Baseball Research, 1984.
19th century
pictorial issue.
Never Just A Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920, Robert F. Burk,
University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Covers the business end of baseball, relying heavily on Seymour's history of the
period.
New York Aces: The First 75 Years, Mark Rucker, Arcadia, 2005.
The New
York and Brooklyn Baseball Clubs,
June
Rankin, Richard Fox Printer, 1888.
New York
Clipper Woodcuts 1879-1880, Lew Lipset,
ed., ---, 1984.
The New York Giants
Baseball Club: The Growth of a Team and a Sport, 1870-1900, James Hardy, McFarland,
1996.
The club that helped to propel baseball into being the national
pastime.
The Night Casey was Born: The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad
"Casey at the Bat", John Evangelist Walsh, Overlook, 2007.
19th Century Baseball in Chicago, Mark Rucker and John Freyer, Arcadia,
2003.
Nineteenth Century
Baseball: Year-by-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871 through
1900, Marshall D. Wright, McFarland, 1996.
Nineteenth Century
Stars, Robert L. Tiemann and Mark Rucker, eds.,
The Society For American Baseball Research, 1989.
Superb, definitive, short
biographies of the game's early heroes. When doing nineteenth century biographical research,
start here.
The 99 Spiders: The
Story of the Worst Baseball Team Ever to Play in the Major Leagues, John Phillips, Capital
Publishing, 1988.
Old Time Baseball,
Harvey Frommer, Taylor Publishing, 2006.
The
100 Seasons of Buffalo Baseball, Joseph Overfield, ---, 1985.
Orator
O’Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical, Mike Roer, McFarland,
2006.
Bio of colorful player
advocate, player, manager, umpire, owner, league president and rhetorical
master Jim O’Rourke.
Our Game: An American
Baseball History, Charles Alexander, Henry Holt and Company, 1991.
Peverelly’s National Game, John
Freyer and Mark Rucker, Arcadia, 2005.
"Play Ball":
Stories of the Ball Field, Mike Kelly, McFarland, 2006.
Reprint from 1888. The author, better known
as the rambunctious "King" Kelly, a Hall of Famer,
spins his baseball yarns.
The
Player’s League: History, Clubs, Ballplayers, and Statistics,
Ed Koszarek, McFarland, 2006.
The doomed league is explored in great
detail including a biographical dictionary of the participants.
Players League Guide
1890, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing, 1989 reprint.
Similar in content to the
Spalding Guides.
Play for A Kingdom, Thomas Dyja, Harcourt
Brace, 1998.
Superb fictional account
of Civil War combatants hashing out their troubles on the ball field.
Playing for Keeps: A
History of Early Baseball, Warren Goldstein, Cornell
UP, 1989.
Practical Ball Playing, Arthur Irwin, American
Sports Publishing, 1895.
Primitive Baseball, Harvey Frommer, Atheneum, 1988.
Professional
Baseball in the Progressive Era (revised ed.), Steven Riess,
University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Reach Baseball Guides
1883-1905, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing, 1987 reprint.
Record of the Boston Base Ball Club Since Its Organization, George Wright, Rockwell
and Churchill, 1874.
The Red Stockings of
Cincinnati: Baseball’s First All-Professional Team and Its Historic 1869 and
1870 Seasons, Stephen D. Guschov, McFarland,
1998.
Richter’s History and
Records of Baseball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport, Francis Richter, Richter
Publ. Co., 1914.
The
Riotous 1896 Cleveland
Spiders, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1997.
The Rise and Fall of American Sport: Mudville’s
Revenge, Ted Vincent, University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
The Rules of Baseball:
An Anecdotal Look at the Rules of Baseball and How They Came to Be, David Nemec, Lyons & Burford, 1994.
St.
Louis’ Big League Ballparks,
Joan M. Thomas, Arcadia,
2004.
Scientific Ball, N. Fred Pfeffer, N. Fred Pfeffer Publ., 1889.
Slide, Kelly, Slide: The
Wild Life and Times of Mike "King" Kelly: Baseball’s First Superstar,
Marty
Appel, Scarecrow, 1996.
Award-winning study of the always colorful
Mike Kelly, whose life and times were shortened by strong drink.
Sol White’s History of
Colored Base Ball, With Other Documents on the Early Black Game 1886-1936, Sol White, University of
Nebraska Press, 1996.
Essential reading for an understanding of this subject, with
excellent introductory material by Jerry Malloy.
The Southern League:
Baseball in Dixie, 1885-1994, Bill O'Neal, McFarland,
1994.
Spalding Baseball Guides
1876-1905, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing, 1987 reprint.
Chock full of period statistics, schedules,
analysis, advertisements, and commentary.
Spalding’s World Tour: The Audacious Adventure That Took
Baseball Around the Globe – And Made It America’s Game,
Mark Lamster,
Public Affairs, 2006.
Sphere and Ash: A
History of Baseball, Jacob Morse, J.E. Spofford,
1888.
The Spiders: Who Was
Who, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1991.
Mini-biographies of the
19th century players of the Cleveland Spiders.
Sport in Industrial America,
1850-1920, Steven A. Reiss, Harlan Davidson, 1995.
A Sporting Time: New
York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870, Melvin L. Adelman, University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Sports in North America: a
Documentary History 3: vol 3: The Rise of Modern
Sports, 1840-1860, Academic International, 1992.
Sports in North America: a
Documentary History 4: vol 4: Sports in War, Revival
and Expansion, 1860-1880, Academic International, 1995.
Squeeze Play in Beantown, G.S. Rowe, Pocol Press, 2004.
The second volume of the
Will Beaman baseball mystery series. This one finds the too-smart-for-his-own-good
protagonist, who works for the 1897 Boston Beaneaters team, knee-deep in prickly labor issues and the
recovery
of a stolen historical manuscript.
Storied
Stadiums, Curt Smith, Carrol
& Graf, 2001.
Stories
of the Baseball Field, Harry Palmer, Rand McNally, 1890.
Pure silliness; an
anecdotal fun romp through archaic green fields, brown dirt, and bat and ball.
Strikeout: A Celebration
of the Art of Pitching, William Curran, Crown, 1995.
Sunday at the Ballpark:
Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career, 1883-1890, Wendy Knickerbocker, Scarecrow, 2000.
Extraordinary tale of
extraordinary man - the ruffian baseball player-turned evangelist.
Sunday Baseball: The
Major Leagues' Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord's Day, 1876-1934, Charlie Bevis,
McFarland, 2003.
The Texas League: A
Century of Baseball, Bill O’Neal, Eakin,
1987.
They Gave Us Baseball, John M. Rosenburg, Stackpole Books, 1989.
The Two-Eyed League: The
Illinois-Iowa of 1890-1892, Raymond Schmidt, R. Schmidt, 1994.
Two
in the Field, Darryl Brock, Plume, 2002.
A sequel to If I Never Get Back.
The Washington
Nationals: 1859 to Today, Frederic J. Frommer, Taylor
Publishing, 2006.
When
Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870, William J. Ryczek, McFarland, 1998.
The most comprehensive
account of the years preceding the first professional baseball league. Provides excellent insight
into baseball's transitional period from amateur recreation to professional
sport.
When
the Mets Played Baseball on Staten Island, Larry Lupo, Vantage Press, 2000.
Written by a Staten Island native, this thin
book covers the 1886 season for the Metropolitan club of the American
Association in good detail.
Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the
Team that Gave
Birth to Modern Baseball, Burt Solomon, Free
Press, 1999.
With the title taken from star batsman Wee
Willie Keeler, this volume concentrates on the remarkable Orioles
National League squads of the 1890s, who
specialized in umpire baiting, cheating and dirty play, strategy, and...winning.
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