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

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 An unpublished account of the wondrous fictional baseball player, "Slugger" Sutton, based on a real small-town baseball league in Kickapoo River Valley in West Central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.

New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company, 1930. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. The wrappers are illustrated with Rogers Hornsby in batting stance on the front cover. There are some marginal tears and general wear and soiling, especially to the Made -To-Measure catalogue; else in very good condition. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box of cloth with inlays of wood and leather. These two companion catalogues illustrate off-the-rack and tailor-made uniforms in a variety of price ranges. They contain original wool flannel samples, a drawing of the complete uniform, full description and price. The READY-TO-WEAR catalogue is sixteen pages (plus covers), fully illustrated and contains thirty-two uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. The MADE-TO-MEASURE catalogue is thirteen pages (plus covers), contains illustrations and sixty uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. Additionally, there are endorsements for mitts (with photo portraits) by… 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.

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.

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.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st edition with a very good DJ with some damage to the top of the DJ's spine, protected In a Brodart cover

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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Very good with some scattered age toning on fore edge. Signed by the author on the front endpaper as well as the author's address sticker on the front paste down. Ground breaking work on baseball stats using a computer decades before "Money Ball ".Scarce original edition.

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.

Greenboro, NC: Tudor Press. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0936389230 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Includes Postcard From National Baseball Hall of Fame Signed by Enos Slaughter ; Black and white photographs; 208 pages .

SIGNED IN PERSON BY WILLIE MAYS directly to the front endpaper! Willie added "Best Wishes" and date 1988, but did not personalize. There is a gift inscription on that same page as shown in my photos. Book looks and feels unread, color is faded on the spine of the dust jacket. Still looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.