"Father of Baseball, The": A Biography of Henry Chadwick, Andrew Schiff, McFarland, 2008.

100 Seasons of Buffalo Baseball, The, Joseph Overfield, Partners' Press, 1985.

1895 Cleveland Spiders, The, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1990.

1898 Base-Ball Fe-As-Ko, The, Randall Beth Platt, Catbird Press, 2000.

19th Century Baseball in Chicago, Mark Rucker, Arcadia, 2003.

99 Spiders: The Story of the Worst Baseball Team Ever to Play in the Major Leagues, The, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1988.

A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of an American Sport, Peter Levine, Oxford UP, 1985.
The history of early baseball as told by one of its most prominent characters. Spalding was a star player, team owner and founder of the sporting goods empire that still bears his name.

Always on Sunday: The California Baseball League, 1886 - 1915, John Spalding, Ag Press, 1992.

Amazing 1889 Babes, The, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, .

America's National Game, Albert Spalding, University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
Reprint of one of the game's early histories.

America's Sporting Heritage, 1850-1950, John Richard Betts, Addison-Wesley, 1974.

American Baseball: From the Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System, David Q. Voigt, Penn State UP, 1983.

Art of Baseball Batting, Henry Chadwick, A.G. Spalding, 1885.

Art of Fielding: With a Chapter on Base Running, Henry Chadwick, A.G. Spalding, 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.

Ball Player's Career, A, A.C. Anson, Era Publishing, 1900.
Seminal baseball biography of the legendary player and manager of the Chicago White Stockings.

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.

Ballplayers, The, Mike Shatzkin, Arbor House, 1990.

Banana Bats and Ding-Dong Balls: A Century of Unique Baseball Inventions, Dan Gutman, Macmillan, 1995.

Base Ball in Cincinnati, Harry Ellard, Johnson & Hardin, 1907.

Base Ball on the Western Reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northwest Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, , James M. Egan Jr., McFarland, 2007.

Base Ball: How To Become A Player, John Montgomery Ward, Society for American Baseball Research, 1983.
Ballplayer-lawyer-labor activist 1880s Ward's treatment on training, theory, strategy, and positional playing. Positively a gem. Reprint.

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, University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Baseball Chronology, The, James Charlton, ed., Macmillan, 1991.

Baseball Cyclopedia. The, Ernest Lanigan, Horton Publishing, 1988.

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.

Baseball From the Newspaper Accounts, Preston Orem, Self Published, 1966.
A popular account of nineteenth century baseball with undocumented facts which should be used with caution by serious researchers.

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 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.

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 the Afternoon, Robert Smith, Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Largely anecdotal, time-travel through baseball's legendary games and players. Contains 19th century text.

Baseball in Washington, Frank Ceresi, Arcadia Publishing, 2002.

Baseball Pioneers: Ratings of Nineteenth Century Players, Charles F. Faber, McFarland, 1997.

Baseball: A History Of America’s Game, Benjamin G. Rader, University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Baseball: The Early Years, Harold Seymour, Oxford University Press, 1960.
Groundbreaking definitive early study of baseball history from an economic, cultural, historical perspective.

Baseball: The People’s Game, Harold Seymour, Oxford University Press, 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 Publishing Company, 1993.

Baseball’s First Indian: Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland Indian, Ed Rice, Tide-Mark Press, 2003.

Baseball’s First Stars, Frederick Ivor-Campbell, ed., 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 Press, 1999.
Biography of arguably the most important man in 19th century baseball whose influence resonates today.

Beer and Whisky League, The, David Nemec, Lyons & Burford, 1994.

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.

Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James, Villard, 1986.

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood Publishing, 1987.
Superior work containing many 19th century ballplayer bios.

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball: 1989-1992 Supplement, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood Publishing, 1992.
An update of Porter's previous biographical book.

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball: 1992-1995 Supplement, David L. Porter, ed., Greenwood Publishing, 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.

Brief History of Baseball, A, Francis Richter, Sporting Life Publishing, 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 , Howard R. 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 , Howard R. 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 Press, 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.

Cleveland Indian, The, 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, Pfeifer Printing Company, 1983.

Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, Norman Macht, University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-1872, The, 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.

Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, The, 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.

Detroit Tribune’s Epitome of Base Ball, The, , Detroit Tribune Publ., 1887.

Diamonds in the Rough, John Bowman, Contemporary Publishing, 1996.

Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada, William Humber, Oxford Univerity Press, 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 in 1884. With box scores; profiles of baseball pioneers; and a robust, penetrating storyline.

Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland, 1858-1871, The, 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.

Elysian Fields: The Birth of Baseball, Thomas Gilbert, Franklin Watts, 1995.
Well-done scholarly account of the game's earliest days.

Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards, Vol I: 19th Century Cards, The, Lew Lipset, Centereach, 1983.

Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Teams, Donald Dewey, Harper Collins, 1993.

Fade-away, The, 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, 1989.

First Boys of Summer: The 1869-1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, The, Greg Rhodes, Road West Publishing Company, 1994.

Fix Is In: A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals, The, Daniel E. Ginsberg, McFarland, 1995.

Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart, David W. Zang, University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Forgotten Championships, The, 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.
In Foul Ball in Beantown, Will Beaman is sickened with a mysterious disease and underemployed. He suddenly finds himself caught up in the controversy surrounding the 1918 Red Sox-Cubs World Series. The American public is far less interested in baseball and its budding star Babe Ruth and instead is focused on the War in Europe, the growing influenza outbreak, and other social ills. But, gamblers threaten to ruin baseball. Can Beaman stop the plot and resue the game?

From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball, Ron McCullouch, 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.

Game of Inches, A, 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.

Great American Baseball Team Book, The, David Nemec, New American Library, 1992.

Great Encyclopedia of 19th Century Major League Baseball, The, 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.

Great Teams of Baseball, The, 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. Several publisher editions exist of this marvelously named work.

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.

Home Team: A Full Century of Baseball in Baltimore, 1859-1959, A Patriotic Story, The, 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.

International League: Year-by-Year Statistics, 1884-1953, The, 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.

Krank: His Language and What It Means, The, 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.

League That Failed, The, David Q. Voigt, Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Legends of Louisville: 1876-1899, Phillip 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.

Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877: The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League, The, William A. Cook, McFarland, 2005.
What happened when four Louisville players were charged in this scandal.

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.

National Association of Baseball Players, 1857-1870, The, Marshall D. Wright, McFarland, 2000.

National Game: Second Edition, The, Alfred H. Spink, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Reprint of original 1911 volume.

National Pastime, The, John Thorn, The Society for American Baseball Research, 1984.
Nineteenth century baseball pictorial issue with rare photos.

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.

New York and Brooklyn Baseball Clubs, The, June Rankin, Richard Fox Printer, 1888.

New York Clipper Woodcuts 1879-1880, Lew Lipset, ed., , 1984.

New York Giants Baseball Club: The Growth of a Team and a Sport, 1870-1900, The, James Hardy, McFarland, 1996.
The club that helped to propel baseball into being the national pastime.

Night Casey was Born: The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat", The, John Evangelist Walsh, Overlook, 2007.

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, ed., 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.

Old Time Baseball, Harvey Frommer, Taylor Publishing, 2006.

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, 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.

Play for A Kingdom, Thomas Dyja, Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Superb fictional account of Civil War combatants hashing out their troubles on the ball field.

Players League Guide 1890, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing , 1989.
Reprint, similar in content to the Spalding Guides.

Player’s League: History, Clubs, Ballplayers, and Statistics, The, Ed Koszarek, McFarland, 2006.
The doomed league is explored in great detail including a biographical dictionary of the participants.

Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, Warren Goldstein, Cornell University Press, 1989.

Practical Ball Playing, Arthur Irwin, American Sports Publishing, 1895.

Primitive Baseball, Harvey Frommer, Atheneum, 1988.

Reach Baseball Guides 1883-1905, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing, 1987.
Reprint of 19th century editions.

Record of the Boston Base Ball Club Since Its Organization, George Wright, Rockwell and Churchill, 1874.

Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Baseball’s First All-Professional Team and Its Historic 1869 and 1870 Seasons, The, Stephen D. Guschov, McFarland, 1998.

Richter’s History and Records of Baseball: The American Nation’s Chief Sport, Francis Richter, Richter Publishing Company, 1914.

Riotous 1896 Cleveland Spiders, The, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1997.

Rise and Fall of American Sport: Mudville’s Revenge, The, Ted Vincent, University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Rules of Baseball: An Anecdotal Look at the Rules of Baseball and How They Came to Be, The, David Nemec, Lyons & Burford, 1994.

Scientific Ball, 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 Press, 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. Reprint of Mr. White's original text.

Southern League: Baseball in Dixie, 1885-1994, The, Bill O'Neal, McFarland, 1994.

Spalding Baseball Guides 1876-1905, Ralph Horton, Horton Publishing Company, 1987.
Reprints of original 19c volumes, 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.
In 1888, Albert Spalding sponsored a world baseball tour of exhibitions that took its participants from The Pyramids in Egypt to London, England.

Sphere and Ash: A History of Baseball, Jacob Morse, J.E. Spofford, 1888.
If for nothing else, this early history of the game offers one of baseball's best book titles.

Spiders: Who Was Who, The, John Phillips, Capital Publishing, 1991.
Mini-biographies of the 19th century players of the Cleveland Spiders.

Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Steve A. Reiss, Harlan Davidson, 1995.

Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870, A, 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, George B. Kirsch, ed., Academic International, 1992.

Sports in North America: a Documentary History 4: vol 4: Sports in War, Revival and Expansion, 1860-1880, George B. Kirsch, ed., 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.

St. Louis’ Big League Ballparks, Joan M. Thomas, Arcadia, 2004.

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 Knikerbocker, Scarecrow Press, 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.

Texas League: A Century of Baseball, The, Bill O'Neal, Eakin, 1987.

They Gave Us Baseball, John M. Rosenburg, Stackpole Books, 1989.

Touching Base: Professional Baseball in the Progressive Era (revised ed.), Steven Reiss, University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Two in the Field, Darryl Brock, Plume, 2002.
A sequel to If I Never Get Back.

Two-Eyed League: The Illinois-Iowa of 1890-1892, The, Raymond Schmidt, R. Schmidt, 1994.

Washington Nationals: 1859 to Today, The, 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, 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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