Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BASEBALL.) Group of 47 early guides and instructional manuals. Mostly 8vo in publisher's pictorial wrappers, various conditions. Vp, 1891-1940

Additional Details

Includes 22 baseball instructional volumes from the Spalding Athletic Library, including "How to Bat," "How to Play the Outfield," "How to Pitch," and more, 1905-40 10 editions of John McGraw's annuals, 1904-13 Murnane guide, 1904 Prindle, The Art of Batting (Reach, 1888 copyright but later) Spalding's Official Indoor Base Ball Guide, 1916-18 Spalding's College Base Ball Annual, 1911 and 1931 Rawlings Base Ball Record Book, 1932 Wright and Ditson's 1910 Base Ball Guide Napoleon Lajoie's 1907 Base Ball Guide Sporting Life 1891 Base Ball Guide Bull Durham 1911 Base Ball Guide Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League (Spalding, 1905) Police Gazette Sporting Annual, 1896 The Reach Art of Curve Pitching, 1904. with--bound photocopies of 20 similar guides.