The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club

Noah Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 10
• The Great Match (1877) and Our Base Ball Club (1884) were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprint... Lees meer

Busting 'em and Other Big League Stories

Ty Cobb

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 1
• Published in 1914, Busting 'Em was the first of three books credited to Ty Cobb the author. Though in fact it was ghostwritten by John N. Wheeler, who... Lees meer

Commy

G W Axelson

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 2
• This biography of Charles "Commy" Comiskey is one of the earliest and most important--and, up to now, one of the hardest for baseball researchers to g... Lees meer

Addie Joss on Baseball

Addie Joss

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 13
• Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tu... Lees meer

Baseball Cyclopedia

Ernest J Lanigan

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 5
• Ernest J. Lanigan was the nephew of Sporting News founder Al Spink and one of three men in his immediate family to gain acclaim as a newspaperman. As ... Lees meer

Ballplayers in the Great War

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 14
• This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.S. armed forces during Wor... Lees meer

The Nebraska Indians and Fun and Frolic with an Indian Ball Team

Guy W Green

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 11
• This is the first book that includes all of Guy W. Green's baseball writings: A Complete History of the Nebraska Indians Base Ball Team (1903), Fun an... Lees meer

The Battle of Base-Ball

C H Claudy

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 8
• C.H. Claudy might have trouble finding a publisher for his Battle of Base-ball today. His yoking of baseball to warfare--accounts of ways to "cripple ... Lees meer

Ty Cobb

H G Salsinger

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 12
• As sports editor for the Detroit News , H.G. Salsinger reported on Tigers great Ty Cobb for 18 seasons, beginning in 1909 when the outfielder won his ... Lees meer

Baseball in Cincinnati

Harry Ellard

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 3
• "From time to time fragmentary accounts of the origin and progress of baseball, as it existed in our community, have appeared in the papers and magazi... Lees meer

Touching Second

John J Evers, Hugh S Fullerton

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 6
• Johnny Evers was widely considered the brainiest ballplayer of his day and, along with Ty Cobb, one of the most guileful and cantankerous. (He and Joe... Lees meer

Base-Ball Ballads

Grantland Rice

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 7
• Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book in... Lees meer

Play Ball

Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 9
• If Cap Anson was baseball's first star, King Kelly was the first player whose celebrity extended beyond the diamond. The dashing mustachioed Kelly was... Lees meer

Richter's History and Records of Baseball, the American Nation' S Chief Sport

Francis C Richter

• Paperback | Engels | McFarland Historical Baseball Library | nr. 4
• Richter's History and Records of Base Ball, the American Nation's Chief Sport, originally published in 1914, is the most comprehensive and ambitious a... Lees meer