(SPORTS) The Play Ground; or Out Door Games for Boys

Sale 2455 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 312

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400

(SPORTS.) The Play Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. Numerous illustrations. 4, [11]-120 pages as issued, plus [5] and [27] pages of publisher's advertisements including endpapers. 12mo, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor wear; internally clean. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]

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10 pages are devoted to baseball, "which is Rounders, or Town Ball, reduced to a system, and governed by scientific rules . . . and bids fair to become to this country what cricket is to England--the national game" (page 83).