America's National Game
by SPALDING Albert G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1911. First Edition . Signed. SPALDING, Albert G. America's National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball. New York: American Sports Publishing, 1911. Thick octavo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.First edition, presentation copy, of this essential baseball history, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication: ""To Mr. H.E. Doolittle with my compliments and Christmas Greetings. A.G. Spalding. Point Loma Calif., Dec. 25, 1911."" With over 100 full-page illustrations and four fold-out plates (two printed on both sides), including frontispiece and panoramic views of the Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Comiskey Park and Forbes Field.""History of the game by one of the pioneer giants"" (Grobani 6:9). Spalding transformed baseball ""from its dual origins as either a gentlemen's club or a rowdy working-class pastime into a popular, commercial, and professional sport
[His] newspaper obituaries across the nation recognized Spalding, who had been a part of nearly every major event in baseball's history, as the father of what was now considered to be 'America's game"" (ANB). During his career, Spalding also established a worldwide sporting goods empire and founded Spalding's Official National League Base Ball Guide. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. Illustrated with historic photographs and numerous sketches by noted cartoonist Homer C. Davenport. Without rare original dust jacket. Smith 691; 19585. Howes S804. The recipient of this copy was a prominent San Diego attorney and alderman.Very fine condition, with folding plates completely intact (often either split or separated). Gilt cover illustration of Uncle Sam with bat in hand very bright. An unusually fine inscribed copy of a baseball landmark.
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- Bookseller
- Bauman Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124760
- Title
- America's National Game
- Author
- SPALDING Albert G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1911
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