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Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide Thirty-Ninth Year 1915
by A. G. Spalding
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, Thirty-Ninth Year, March 1915. Condition: Good+. First Edition, Paperback. Color pictorial paper front cover with chipping to the tail of spine. Rear cover missing. 359 pp plus approximately 40 pages of advertising with numerous images of balls, bats, gloves, masks, shoes and uniforms. Pages good condition with no foxing or marks. Numerous black and white photos, including the American League and World Champion Boston Braves and National League Champion Philadelphia Athletics. Book includes detailed information on team ownership, team rosters, individual player data, and minor league info and photos. Joints intact and strong, a rarity for a paperback of this age. Corners fair to good condition bumped and worn. Page edges lightly sunned. No owner attribution or internal or external markings. Paste downs good condition advert. Free end papers good condition adverts. This is a good copy of a very scarce item.
Extended Description and Notes
This exceedingly rare book chronicles the 1914 Major League Baseball season culminating with the four-game World Series sweep of the National League's Boston Braves over the American League's Philadelphia Athletics. A chapter entitled "Little Sketches of World Series Players of 1914" encompasses a b/w photo and biographical paragraph of the participants. Tyrus R. Cobb of the Detroit Tigers led all of major league baseball in 1914 with a batting average of .368 and is featured with a full page photo. Other articles include the "Discovery of Curve Pitching" which credits William Arthur Cummings with being "considered the first curve ball pitcher". Very few paperback books of this era are known to have survived. The 1914 season also marks the debut of George Herman (Babe) Ruth, who split the season with the Boston Red Sox (shown on the roster on page 185) and also led the Providence Grays to the 1914 International League Championship. He is included in the team picture for Providence in this book on page 196. Ruth's name was mis-pelled in the Providence roster on page 187 as Geo. Roth.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100153
- Title
- Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide Thirty-Ninth Year 1915
- Author
- A. G. Spalding
- Illustrator
- Homer C. Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Paperback with photo of 1900 era batter. Front cover repaired from inside. Small hole near spine. Rear cover missing.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- American sports Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- March, 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- baseball, sports
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
- Size
- 4 1/4 x 6 1/2
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2020
GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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