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In 2014 Sean Lahman assembled a [https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134619/http://www.seanlahman.com/2014/08/index-of-online-baseball-guides/ list of guides available online], now found at archive.org. | In 2014 Sean Lahman assembled a [https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134619/http://www.seanlahman.com/2014/08/index-of-online-baseball-guides/ list of guides available online], now found at archive.org. | ||
| − | I found some more guides that he didn't have listed, as well as some supplemental baseball material | + | I found some more guides that he didn't have listed, as well as some supplemental baseball material. |
== Spalding's Official Base Ball Record == | == Spalding's Official Base Ball Record == | ||
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From their own descriptions: | From their own descriptions: | ||
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| − | '''No. 1 - Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide | + | '''No. 1''' - ''Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide'' - The leading Base Ball annual of the country, and the official authority of the game. Contains the official playing rules, with an explanatory index of the rules compiled by Mr. A. G. Spalding; pictures of all the teams in the National, American and minor leagues; review of the season; college Base Ball, and a great deal of interesting information. Price 10 cents. |
| − | '''No. 1A - Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | + | '''No. 1A''' - ''Spalding's Official Base Ball Record'' - Something new in Base Ball. Contains records of all kinds from the beginning of the National League and official average of all professional organizations for past season. Illustrated with pictures of leading teams and players. Price 10 cents. |
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* '''1917 – Reach Guide''' | [http://archive.org/stream/reachofficialame19161phil#page/n458/mode/1up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | * '''1917 – Reach Guide''' | [http://archive.org/stream/reachofficialame19161phil#page/n458/mode/1up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
* '''1919 – Reach Guide''' | [http://archive.org/stream/reachofficialame19181phil#page/n354/mode/1up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | * '''1919 – Reach Guide''' | [http://archive.org/stream/reachofficialame19181phil#page/n354/mode/1up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide == | ||
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| + | * '''1884 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/wrightditsonbase00murn_1 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1910 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/wrightditsonbase00murn_0 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1911 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/wrightditsonbase00murn View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == De Witt's Base-ball Guide == | ||
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| + | * '''1876 – De Witt's Base-ball Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/dewittsbaseballg00unse_0 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == John McGraw's Scientific Baseball == | ||
| + | |||
| + | * '''1910 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball''' | [https://archive.org/details/scientificbaseba00mcgr View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1912 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball''' | [https://archive.org/details/scientificbaseba00mcgr_0 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1913 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball''' | [https://archive.org/details/scientificbaseba00mcgrrich View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == Spalding's Cleveland Base Ball Book == | ||
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| + | * '''1913 – Official Guide of the Cleveland Amateur Base Ball Association''' | [https://archive.org/details/officialguideofc01clev View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1914 – Official Guide of the Cleveland Amateur Base Ball Association''' | [https://archive.org/details/officialguideofc00clev View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == Spalding's Denver Base Ball Book == | ||
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| + | * '''1905 – Spalding's Denver Amateur Base Ball Year Book''' | [https://archive.org/details/spaldingsdenvera00denv View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1913 – Spalding's Official Denver Base Ball Book''' | [https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficialde00 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1914 – Spalding's Official Denver Base Ball Book''' | [https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficialde010 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == Spalding's Metropolitan (New York City) Base Ball Book == | ||
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| + | * '''1909 – Spalding's Official Metropolitan Base Ball Book and Official Inter-city Base Ball Association Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficialme00 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1913 – Spalding's Official Metropolitan Base Ball Book and Official Inter-city Base Ball Association Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficialme01 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
== Misc. == | == Misc. == | ||
| − | * '''1877-78, 1880-96, 1898-1910 – Constitution and playing rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs''' | [ | + | * '''1877-78, 1880-96, 1898-1910 – Constitution and playing rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs''' | [http://www.lib.umd.edu/univarchives/baseball View online] (Source: University of Maryland) |
* '''1866 – The Base Ball Player's Book of Reference (Haney's)''' | [https://archive.org/details/chadwick-baseball-reference View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | * '''1866 – The Base Ball Player's Book of Reference (Haney's)''' | [https://archive.org/details/chadwick-baseball-reference View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
* '''1879 – American Manual of Base Ball''' | [https://archive.org/stream/americanmanualof00unse_0#page/n1/mode/2up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | * '''1879 – American Manual of Base Ball''' | [https://archive.org/stream/americanmanualof00unse_0#page/n1/mode/2up View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
* '''1889 – Chadwick's How To Play Base Ball''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t86h5110s;view=1up;seq=9 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | * '''1889 – Chadwick's How To Play Base Ball''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t86h5110s;view=1up;seq=9 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | ||
| + | * '''1889 – Morse's Annual Base Ball Book''' | [https://archive.org/details/morsesannualbase00mors View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
* '''1897 – Tuohey's History of the Boston Base Ball Club''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5p5j;view=1up;seq=9 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | * '''1897 – Tuohey's History of the Boston Base Ball Club''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5p5j;view=1up;seq=9 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | ||
* '''1902 – Church's Base Ball Vol. 1 (1845-1871)''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158005735153;view=1up;seq=13 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | * '''1902 – Church's Base Ball Vol. 1 (1845-1871)''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158005735153;view=1up;seq=13 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) | ||
| − | * '''1914 – Richter's history and records of base ball : the American nation's chief sport''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8x932375;view=1up;seq=7 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | + | * '''1914 – Richter's history and records of base ball : the American nation's chief sport''' | [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8x932375;view=1up;seq=7 View online] (Source: Hathi Trust) |
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| + | == Canadian Guides == | ||
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| + | * '''1876 – The Official Rules of the Canadian Association of Base Ball Players (Bryce)''' | [https://archive.org/details/cihm_10324 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1900 – Le Sport, Guide Officiel : Baseball, Ligue de l'Est, Ligue Provinciale, Ligue de Montréal, Ligue Nationale, Ligue indépendante''' | [https://archive.org/details/cihm_13835 View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
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| + | == Indoor Base Ball == | ||
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| + | * '''1891 – Hancock's Indoor Base Ball Guide''' | [https://archive.org/details/hancocksindoorba00hanc View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1897 – Spalding's Athletic Library - Indoor Base Ball''' | [https://archive.org/details/constitutionbyla01asso View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1898 – Spalding's Athletic Library - Indoor Base Ball''' | [https://archive.org/details/constitutionbyla00asso View online] (Source: Internet Archive) | ||
| + | * '''1903 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00236/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1904 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00237/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1905 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00238/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1906 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00239/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1907 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00240/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1908 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00241/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1909 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00242/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1910 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00243/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1911 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00244/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1912 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00245/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1913 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00246/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1913-14 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00247/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1914-15 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00248/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1916 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00249/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1917 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00250/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1918 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00251/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1919-20 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00252/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1921-22 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00253/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1925-26 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00254/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
| + | * '''1926 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide''' | [https://www.loc.gov/item/spalding.00255/ View online] (Source: Library of Congress) | ||
Revision as of 00:06, 6 May 2018
Baseball statistics and guides have been a part of the sport since the early days. There have been a variety of publishers, focusing on a range of leagues and accomplishments.
In 2014 Sean Lahman assembled a list of guides available online, now found at archive.org.
I found some more guides that he didn't have listed, as well as some supplemental baseball material.
Contents
- 1 Spalding's Official Base Ball Record
- 2 Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player
- 3 Spalding Guide
- 4 Reach Guide
- 5 Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide
- 6 De Witt's Base-ball Guide
- 7 John McGraw's Scientific Baseball
- 8 Spalding's Cleveland Base Ball Book
- 9 Spalding's Denver Base Ball Book
- 10 Spalding's Metropolitan (New York City) Base Ball Book
- 11 Misc.
- 12 Canadian Guides
- 13 Indoor Base Ball
Spalding's Official Base Ball Record
American Sports Publishing Company published many different athletic books. In the baseball community, they are mostly known for Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide. I recently became aware of their Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.
From their own descriptions:
No. 1 - Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide - The leading Base Ball annual of the country, and the official authority of the game. Contains the official playing rules, with an explanatory index of the rules compiled by Mr. A. G. Spalding; pictures of all the teams in the National, American and minor leagues; review of the season; college Base Ball, and a great deal of interesting information. Price 10 cents.
No. 1A - Spalding's Official Base Ball Record - Something new in Base Ball. Contains records of all kinds from the beginning of the National League and official average of all professional organizations for past season. Illustrated with pictures of leading teams and players. Price 10 cents.
- 1908 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1909 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1910 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1911 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1912 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1913 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1914 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1915 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1916 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1917 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1918 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1919 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1920 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1921 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1922 – Spalding's Official Base Ball Record | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player
- 1860 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1862 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1865 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1866 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1867 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1869 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1870 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1871 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1872 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1873 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1874 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1875 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1876 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1878 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1879 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1880 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
- 1881 – Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player | View online (Source: Northern Illinois University)
Spalding Guide
- 1876 – Spalding Guide | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
- 1878 – Spalding Guide | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
- 1884 – Spalding Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1934 – Spalding Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1939 – Spalding Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
Reach Guide
- 1901 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1903 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1905 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1913 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1917 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1919 – Reach Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide
- 1884 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1910 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1911 – Wright & Ditson's Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
De Witt's Base-ball Guide
- 1876 – De Witt's Base-ball Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
John McGraw's Scientific Baseball
- 1910 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1912 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1913 – John McGraw's Scientific Baseball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Spalding's Cleveland Base Ball Book
- 1913 – Official Guide of the Cleveland Amateur Base Ball Association | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1914 – Official Guide of the Cleveland Amateur Base Ball Association | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Spalding's Denver Base Ball Book
- 1905 – Spalding's Denver Amateur Base Ball Year Book | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1913 – Spalding's Official Denver Base Ball Book | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1914 – Spalding's Official Denver Base Ball Book | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Spalding's Metropolitan (New York City) Base Ball Book
- 1909 – Spalding's Official Metropolitan Base Ball Book and Official Inter-city Base Ball Association Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1913 – Spalding's Official Metropolitan Base Ball Book and Official Inter-city Base Ball Association Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Misc.
- 1877-78, 1880-96, 1898-1910 – Constitution and playing rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs | View online (Source: University of Maryland)
- 1866 – The Base Ball Player's Book of Reference (Haney's) | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1879 – American Manual of Base Ball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1889 – Chadwick's How To Play Base Ball | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
- 1889 – Morse's Annual Base Ball Book | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1897 – Tuohey's History of the Boston Base Ball Club | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
- 1902 – Church's Base Ball Vol. 1 (1845-1871) | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
- 1914 – Richter's history and records of base ball : the American nation's chief sport | View online (Source: Hathi Trust)
Canadian Guides
- 1876 – The Official Rules of the Canadian Association of Base Ball Players (Bryce) | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1900 – Le Sport, Guide Officiel : Baseball, Ligue de l'Est, Ligue Provinciale, Ligue de Montréal, Ligue Nationale, Ligue indépendante | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
Indoor Base Ball
- 1891 – Hancock's Indoor Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1897 – Spalding's Athletic Library - Indoor Base Ball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1898 – Spalding's Athletic Library - Indoor Base Ball | View online (Source: Internet Archive)
- 1903 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1904 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1905 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1906 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1907 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1908 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1909 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1910 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1911 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1912 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1913 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1913-14 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1914-15 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1916 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1917 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1918 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1919-20 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1921-22 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1925-26 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
- 1926 – Spalding's Indoor Official Base Ball Guide | View online (Source: Library of Congress)
