Lot 226.  Four Early 19th Century books on baseball. A 24 page paper back with a very attractive cover, "Outdoor Sports for Boys". Shows a boy batting on the cover. By Father Friendlyworld, published in Philadelphia in 1870. Two full pages on baseball at the beginning. Back cover shows color picture of Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia, who apparently sponsored the book. Some biting in the lower corners of the covers and the first few pages. A hardback "Popular Pastimes" by Milton Bradley in 1867 with 22 pages on baseball including a couple of woodcuts. A 380 page 1864 hardcover book by Dick & Fitzgerald, "Public Business". A couple of pages on "the laws of Cricket" followed by a dozen on the "laws of base-ball". Finally, a 210 page from 1870, "Popular Amusements", with a 12 page commentary on baseball. Also chapters on Horse Racing and Football. Overall in excellent condition. Minimum Bid $250.

Lot 227.  A History of the Boston Base Ball Club 1871-1897 by George V. Touhey One of the rarest and most important baseball books of the 19th Century. Written in 1897, it covers the history of the Boston Club since the inception of the National Association in 1871 (through 1875) and the beginning of the National League in 1876. The first half of the 242 page book covers the history of the team while the balance has over 50 articles on individual players. Filled with photos of many of Boston’s great players and teams. Excellent. Winning Bid $1,172.

Lot 228.  1891 Sporting Life Guide and 1889 Chadwick Guide. The very rare 1891 guide was Sporting Life’s only venture into a Guide. There are 212 pages and offers a fairly concise history of baseball. It concludes with a good summary of the Players League in 1890. The guide features about a dozen full page woodcuts including Mike Kelly and some obscure League presidents and owners. The 1889 Chadwick guide is more colorful and much more common. It is more a rules book. There is a light stain on the cover which is barely noticeable and is otherwise in excellent condition. It comes with a very elaborate black case made especially for it with “CHADWICKS BASEBALL MANUAL ---------- 1889” embossed in gold leaf on a green leather square. Winning Bid $500.

Lot 229.  Reach Baseball Guides run of 41 from 1901-1941. High quality run of the more difficult Reach Baseball Guides (1901-1939) plus Spalding-Reach (1940 & 1941) with original covers. All are soft covers except 1901 which is hardback and excellent; The rest of the collection 1902-1941, including 1919-24 hardback presentation copies given to Francis C. Richter, publisher of Sporting Life and editor of the Reach Guide are excellent or better with these exceptions: 1902, spine tape & false BC; 1903 spine tape; 1904 Vg-Ex; 1906, spine tape; 1907 & 1908 covers Vg; Detailed conditions for all 41 Guides available on request. Winning Bid $2,659.

Lot 230.  3 Lajoie Guides and 2 Bull Durham Guides. The Lajoie Guides, all with Nap Lajoie on the cover, are from 1906-1908. The 1908 Guide is in excellent condition, the 1907 has a good front cover and the back cover is loose and the 1906 is very good with the lower right corner of the cover missing. The 3 years are the only ones issued and are very popular and not easy to find. Noted for being especially well illustrated with photos by Louis Van Oeyen and team Composites by Carl Horner. The Bull Durham Guides, issued only in 1910 and1911 are typical Guides issued out of Boston. The 1910 is in very good condition with a creased cover and the 1911 has a cover in poor condition with fading, tape on the spine and a tear at the bottom. Winning Bid $500.

Lot 231.  Baseball in Cincinnati by Henry Ellard. The monumental history of Cincinnati baseball by Henry Ellard takes the reader back to the beginnings of baseball and especially the beginning of baseball in Cincinnati including the great team of 1869. Many photo plates (all intact) and illustrated pages. The 1908 edition with a beautiful black cover and red highlights. Ex-mt. Winning Bid $500.

Lot 232.  1909 Reach’s All American Stars Oriental Tour Program. One of the finest examples of 20th Century Baseball art known. There are 16 pages (plus the covers). There are 5 pages about the tour, and photos with accompanying bios on Bill Devereaux, Bill Burns, Jack Bliss, Jim Delehanty, Jerry Freeman, Pat Flaherty, Joe Nealon, George Hildebrand, Roy McArdle and Nick Williams. The back cover has a steamship ad and is in full color. This program went for $2,890 in a June 8, 2000 Jerry Smolin auction. Minimum Bid $1,500.

Lot 233.  Circa Vintage 1910 Notebook covers featuring Hal Chase (front) and Frank Chance (rear). A 6 ¾” x 8 ¼” notebook, possibly a proof. The ornate front cover shows Hal Chase in a diamond with baseball bats and a plant decorating the background. Similarly, Frank Chance is shown on the back cover. The inside is blank. In rare mint condition and possibly one of a kind. Winning Bid $500.

Lot 234.  1911 Wright & Ditson Guide and 2 Richard Fox John McGraw Guides. The 1911 Wright & Ditson Guide from the company George Wright started in his early days of baseball where he played with the 1869 Reds. The book is a standard guide with some unique photos of HOF’ers, has 224 pages, and is in excellent condition, despite some abrasions along the right side. The two “How to Play the Game By John McGraw” are from 1909 and 1912. The latter has some tape on the spine, the 1909’s cover is a little loose. The publisher, Richard Fox, was the same publisher as the Police Gazette and some of the photos are the same used in the Police Gazette Supplements. Winning Bid $500.

Lot 235.  1912 Detroit Tiger 24 page program with a beautiful graphic cover featuring a Maxwell automobile which may have likeness of Cobb as the driver. Several interesting ads including 4 automobile ads (Flanders with a photo with Jennings, Cobb, Crawford, Chalmers, etc, a Kodak ad with Cobb sliding and a leather bag with a drawing of Cobb. The centerfold is loose and not scored, otherwise the program is excellent. Winning Bid $1,531.

Lot 236.  A group of 9 baseball books including reprints of 6 historic and very rare baseball books. Three of the reprints were made by Camden House in 1983 and 1984. The reprints were limited editions of 500, are numbered and very rare and have become quite valuable. The 3 are Jacob Morse’s 1888 Sphere and Ash, Henry Chadwick’s 1868 The Game of Baseball and Sol Whites ca 1910 Official Base Ball Guide. All 3 are near mint and professionally bound by the publisher. The other reprint books are the 1877 Spalding Guide, 1890 Players League Guide and John Wards Baseball: How to Become a Player All are ex+-mt. The 3 original books are the very rare Spalding “Birth of the Minors 1904”, with a man made cover, The 1906 Baseball Jokes, a paperback in very good to excellent condition and the humorous 1920 “On The Road with the Baseball Bugs”, also in very good to excellent condition. Minimum Bid $500.

Lot 237.  Sporting News, Barnes, Commissioner Baseball Guides, complete 20th Century run from 1942-1999. Total of 61 guides in outstanding condition. Sporting News run of 58 guides (1942-1999) has 1942 Leatherette cover, Ex; 1943-1999 - Ex to Near Mt (1946 to 1948 have spine tape); 1943 Commissioner Guide with leatherette cover over original covers, Ex+; 1945 and 1946 Barnes Guides, Excellent. Minimum Bid $400.

Lot 238.  Sporting News Baseball Registers run of 51 from 1940-1990 plus two scarce 1945 variation Registers. A total of 53 Sporting News Registers all Excellent to Near Mint. 1940-1944 (last has spine tape), Excellent; Three 1945s - (Active players, Landis cover, 128 pages) spine tape, Excellent; (Serviceman's edition, 128 pages) spine tape, Excellent; (Regular edition, 318 pages) hardback, Ex-Mt; 1946-1990 - Excellent to Near Mt (1958 has spine tape). Minimum Bid $500.

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