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1865. Unbound. Very Good. Porcelain plate. Approximately 8" in diameter. Two chips to the rim not affecting the image, some wear, very good. The plate has an embossed alphabet around the inner rim, with a transfer image in brown in the center of the plate depicting a baseball game, with "American Sports" at the top of the image, and "Base Ball. Running to First Base" below the image. No back marks and undated, but consistent with German export ware of the period between 1865-1875. Very uncommon.
How to Knock Home Runs and other Tips to Batters. --with-- How to Play the Infield. --with-- How to Throw Curves and other Pitching Secrets. --with-- How to Play the Outfield. by [Ruth, Babe]
by [Ruth, Babe]
How to Knock Home Runs and other Tips to Batters. --with-- How to Play the Infield. --with-- How to Throw Curves and other Pitching Secrets. --with-- How to Play the Outfield.
by [Ruth, Babe]
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[No Place]: Quaker Oats Company, [1934]. [No Place]: Quaker Oats Company, [1934]. First edition. Publishers stapled tan wrappers, with illustration of batter to front wrapper. Very good with just some soiling to wrappers. Overall, a very nice and tight copy. --with-- How to Play the Infield. [No Place]: Quaker Oats Company, [1934]. First edition. Publishers stapled blue wrappers, with illustration of player catching a ball to front wrapper. Very good with light soiling to wrappers, a strip of tape to front wrapper (no repair), and front wrapper edges lightly faded. Overall, a very nice copy. --with-- How to Throw Curves and other Pitching Secrets. First edition. Publishers stapled orange wrappers, with illustration of a pitcher to front wrapper. Very good or better, with light spotting to rear panel and a tiny spot of soiling to the bottom corner of a few pages. Overall, an excellent copy without any nicks or tears. --with-- How to Play the Outfield. First edition. Publishers stapled green wrappers, with illustration of an outfielder to front wrapper. Very good or better with light spotting to wrappers. Overall, a bright and tight copy. This ghost-written booklet comes from a set of four How to
baseball booklets: How to Knock Home Runs, How to Play the Infield, How to Throw Curves, and How to Play the Outfield. The booklets came out of a deal that Babe Ruth made with Quaker Oats near the end of his playing career: customers could receive them through mail order by redeeming Quaker Oats box tops. It also includes an illustration of Ruth eating cereal on the last page, alongside an advertisement for Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. How to Knock Home Runs includes about 20 pages of batting tips, with chapters like Selection of Bats, The Value of Timing, and Stance and Grip. How to Play the Infield includes about 20 pages of infielding tips, with chapters like Stance, Teamwork, and Keeping Runners Close. How to Throw Curves includes about 20 pages of pitching tips, with chapters like Acquiring Control, Warming Up, and The Wind-Up. How to Play the Outfield includes about 20 pages of outfielding tips, with chapters like Getting into Position, Saving your Arm, and Throwing to the Plate. . First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good.
- Bookseller B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (US)
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher [No Place]: Quaker Oats Company, [1934].
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[Porcelain Plate]: American Sports: Base Ball. Running to First Base
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Official Score Book: Pacific Coast League 1911
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[Vernon, California?]: Pacific Coast League, 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. [8]pp. Stapled wrappers. One horizontal fold, the front wrap age-toned, some marginal tears on a couple of pages, very good. Program for a game between the Vernon Tigers of Vernon, California, and the Los Angeles Angels. The program features photos of several players, center score card/roster pages with pre-printed players' names, ballpark rules: "Bottle and cushion throwing prohibited," and some amusing baseball related advertising. Founded in 1903, the PCL was the highest level of western baseball until the Dodgers and Giants moved to California in the 1950s. Vernon was one of only two cities in Los Angeles County that was "wet," and with alcoholic beverages as an attraction, the Tigers attracted big crowds by the standards of the day. They weren't bad either, winning three pennants during their 17-year history. Very early memorabilia from the PCL is scarce.
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by BROOKS, Walter R.
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- near fine
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- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A modest stain on the rear board else near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a small corresponding stain on the rear panel and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Inscribed by the author: "To John Orban with best wishes of Freddy and Walter R. Brooks." Our favorite title among the highly collectible series of books about Freddy, an intelligent pig-detective. Freddy is embroiled in the search for six missing Martians who are being forced to travel the country as a barnstorming baseball team. A significant highspot in porcine-detective literature, and exceptionally scarce signed.
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Around the World with the Base Ball Bugs [cover title]: On the Road with the Base Ball Bugs
by REGAN, "Jack" and Will E. Stahl
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- very good
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Chicago, Ill: J. Regan & Co, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 93pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages a bit browned with small nicks and tears at the extremities, an attractive, very good copy of a fairly fragile volume. A children's book on baseball containing various poems, songs, anecdotes, and other material. *McCue* pg. 82.
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[Baseball Shape Book, cover title]: New York Souvenir September 1908 [Alternative title]: The Morning Newspaper Baseball League sends Greetings and Invites New York to the First Printers' National Baseball Tournament
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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New York: The Morning Newspaper Baseball League, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cord-tied thick boards, die-cut into the shape of a baseball mitt. [114]pp. Elaborately illustrated souvenir volume. Some small scrapes on the front board, else near fine. Enumerates the various teams that played in the tournament. Rare. Not in *OCLC*, and we've never seen another copy.
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[Porcelain Plate]: American Sports: Base Ball. Running to First Base
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1865. Unbound. Very Good. Porcelain plate. Approximately 8" in diameter. Two chips to the rim not affecting the image, some wear, very good. The plate has an embossed alphabet around the inner rim, with a transfer image in brown in the center of the plate depicting a baseball game, with "American Sports" at the top of the image, and "Base Ball. Running to First Base" below the image. No back marks and undated, but consistent with German export ware of the period between 1865-1875. Very uncommon.
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Official Score Book: Pacific Coast League 1911
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- Used - Very Good
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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[Vernon, California?]: Pacific Coast League, 1911. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. [8]pp. Stapled wrappers. One horizontal fold, the front wrap age-toned, some marginal tears on a couple of pages, very good. Program for a game between the Vernon Tigers of Vernon, California, and the Los Angeles Angels. The program features photos of several players, center score card/roster pages with pre-printed players' names, ballpark rules: "Bottle and cushion throwing prohibited," and some amusing baseball related advertising. Founded in 1903, the PCL was the highest level of western baseball until the Dodgers and Giants moved to California in the 1950s. Vernon was one of only two cities in Los Angeles County that was "wet," and with alcoholic beverages as an attraction, the Tigers attracted big crowds by the standards of the day. They weren't bad either, winning three pennants during their 17-year history. Very early memorabilia from the PCL is scarce.
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by BROOKS, Walter R.
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A modest stain on the rear board else near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a small corresponding stain on the rear panel and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Inscribed by the author: "To John Orban with best wishes of Freddy and Walter R. Brooks." Our favorite title among the highly collectible series of books about Freddy, an intelligent pig-detective. Freddy is embroiled in the search for six missing Martians who are being forced to travel the country as a barnstorming baseball team. A significant highspot in porcine-detective literature, and exceptionally scarce signed.
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Around the World with the Base Ball Bugs [cover title]: On the Road with the Base Ball Bugs
by REGAN, "Jack" and Will E. Stahl
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Chicago, Ill: J. Regan & Co, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 93pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages a bit browned with small nicks and tears at the extremities, an attractive, very good copy of a fairly fragile volume. A children's book on baseball containing various poems, songs, anecdotes, and other material. *McCue* pg. 82.
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[Baseball Shape Book, cover title]: New York Souvenir September 1908 [Alternative title]: The Morning Newspaper Baseball League sends Greetings and Invites New York to the First Printers' National Baseball Tournament
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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New York: The Morning Newspaper Baseball League, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cord-tied thick boards, die-cut into the shape of a baseball mitt. [114]pp. Elaborately illustrated souvenir volume. Some small scrapes on the front board, else near fine. Enumerates the various teams that played in the tournament. Rare. Not in *OCLC*, and we've never seen another copy.
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No DJ Included
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- No DJ Included
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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The Story of Baseball
by Ritter, Lawrence S
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- Good
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780688017248 / 068801724X
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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New York, William Morrow & Co., 1983, hardcover, pp.vii-150, Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed by the author on the title page "Merry Christmas-Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean, wear to bottom corners, tiny ink mark to bottom edge of text block. Dustjacket, edge nicks, short edge tears with some crumple, chips to spine ends, in new Brodart sleeve. The fundamentals of the game of baseball and an introduction to the great players of the past by the author of 'The Glory of Their Times'. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Introduction by Ted Williams. Index appended. ISBN 9780688017248
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COUNTRY HARDBALL The Autobiography of Enos "Country" Slaughter
by Slaughter, Enos with Kevin Reid
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- First Edition
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780936389233 / 0936389230
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Greenboro, NC: Tudor Press. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0936389230 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Includes Postcard From National Baseball Hall of Fame Signed by Enos Slaughter ; Black and white photographs; 208 pages .
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Summerland.
by CHABON, Michael
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- as new
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- first
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- As New
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- Fine
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- First edition / First printing.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780786808779 / 0786808772
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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New York: Hyperion, 2002. Signed on the title page by the author who has drawn a baseball by his signature. This is being sold together with a promotional package of Summerland cards. First edition / First printing. White paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style
by Whiting, Robert
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- near fine
- Paperback
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780380631155 / 0380631156
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Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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New York: Avon Books, 1983 This book almost 40 years old and appears to be unread. There is a date or code (3/11/13) written on the first prelim page and pages are toned but it is otherwise near new. Stated first printing with full number line. Robert Whiting provides "a look at a very different culture through America's favorite sport -- Baseball mania in today's Japan" [from the cover]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs.
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St. Louis Cardinals Cartoons By Amour (Amour Krupnik) from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1958-1968
by Krupnik, Amour
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Unknown Upaginated; Spiral-Bound Soft Cover; Illustrated Reprint Edition; Includes Krupnik bio and background for each cartoon, Stats. Brief history of the Cardinals 1958-68. Rare. Spiral-Bound. As New.
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My Kind of Baseball (First Edition)
by Rogers Hornsby, J. Roy Stockton, Editor
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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David McKay Company, Inc, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Collectible first edition, first printing of Hall of Fame inductee Rogers Hornsby's baseball how-to, My Kind of Baseball, one of the best ever published. Tip after tip after tip from the master. Per David McKay's practice of designating first editions, no additional printings indicated on copyright page. Includes scarce dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. 185 pp. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and very light wrinkling to head and tail of spine panel. Unclipped dust jacket with two tiny tears to edges. A presentable copy of an early and important baseball instructional. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Roger Maris at Bat
by Maris, Roger; and Jim Ogle
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- Used - Near Fine
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Westfield, New York, United States
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Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st edition with a very good DJ with some damage to the top of the DJ's spine, protected In a Brodart cover
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THE BIG RED MACHINE
by Hertzel, Bob
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780130761903 / 0130761907
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Buffalo, Wyoming, United States
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends, previous owner's pasted stamp to 1/2 title page, offsetting to FFE opposite from stamp else a bright, solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with rubbing to edge, bumping to spine ends, small chip from head of spine else a bright and solid copy. Book is signed/inscribed by 3 Cincinatti Reds - signature & inscription from Ted Kluszewski to FFE, signatures from Johnny Bench & Pete Rose to title page. Book includes an NBC press pass for Game 5 of the 1976 World Series. This is significant because there wasn't a Game 5. The Reds swept the Yankees 4 straight games. A truly unique item.
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