Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BASEBALL--19TH CENTURY.) [Chadwick, Henry; editor.] Spalding's Base Ball Guide and Official League Book for 1884. Numerous illustrations. 12mo, early plain wrappers with original pictorial wrappers pasted on, moderate wear; engraving of John Morrill pasted to inside wrapper, newspaper clipping of Massachusetts State League schedule tipped to an ad page. Chicago, 1884

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Includes an engraving of Dan Brouthers, an essay on "Inebriety among Players," and the first rules permitting overhand pitching.