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Links to interesting baseball origins information

19C Base Ball Inc: Over 500 pages of 19th Century Base Ball Information
The A.G. Spalding Digital Photo Collection: Available from the New York Public Library
Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player Guides: Guides available from the 1860's, 1870's and 1880's
The (British) Bobby Thomson Chapter's Research: The Bobby Thomson chapter of SABR offering several original research papers, from 1993 to 2003, on early English ballplaying
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Issues available from 1841 through 1963
Firsts in baseball as per Protoball: A Miscellany of "Baseball Firsts" that are not tied strongly to a particular geographical location
Library of Congress: Numerous editions of United States newspapers available from 1789 through 1963
Mears Baseball Scrapbooks: A 13 volume collection of newspaper box scores and newspaper articles from 1853 through 1912 and 1920 through 1922
New York Clipper: Issues available from May 7, 1853 through July 12, 1924 (3605 issues)
The New York Times, TimesMachine: Issues available from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2002. **Paid Service
Retrosheet: A large database of everything baseball
SABR Origins Committee's favorite research sub-topics: Sub-topics that interest the Members of the SABR Origins Committee the most
Threads of Our Game: A 2014 website devoted to the early US clubs' uniforms
UK's "Project Cobb": Joe Gray's site for chronicling English baseball and its history (mostly from 1900 on)
Vintage Base Ball Association - VBBA: Information regarding today's 19th century clubs as well as historical resources

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-; [http://research.sabr.org/origins/research/topics SABR Origins Committee Research topics of interest]
+; [http://19cbaseball.com 19C Base Ball Inc]
-: Topics that interest the Members of the SABR Origins Committee most
+: Over 500 pages of 19th Century Base Ball Information
-; [http://sabrpedia.org/wiki/Other_firsts_in_baseball Other firsts in baseball]
+; [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?keywords=spalding+collection The A.G. Spalding Digital Photo Collection]
-: Firsts that are not tied strongly to a geographical location
+: Available from the New York Public Library
+; [https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels:262 Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player Guides]
-Blogs with Content on the Origins of Base Ball
+: Guides available from the 1860's, 1870's and 1880's
+; [http://chapters.sabr.org/uk/sabr-uk-examiner The (British) Bobby Thomson Chapter's Research]
+: The Bobby Thomson chapter of SABR offering several original research papers, from 1993 to 2003, on early English ballplaying
-=== Blogs with Content on the Origins of Base Ball ===
+; [https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
+: Issues available from 1841 through 1963
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+; [https://protoball.org/Base_Ball_Firsts Firsts in baseball as per Protoball]
+: A Miscellany of "Baseball Firsts" that are not tied strongly to a particular geographical location
-* '''Our Game''' – ''[[John Thorn]]'', Official Historian of Major League Baseball
+; [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Library of Congress]
-;Approx. Frequency: 1 to 3 posts per week
+: Numerous editions of United States newspapers available from 1789 through 1963
-;Coverage: All of baseball history; many entries address the pre-professional game
+; [https://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll27/search/searchterm/mears Mears Baseball Scrapbooks]
-;URL:  http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/
+: A 13 volume collection of newspaper box scores and newspaper articles from 1853 through 1912 and 1920 through 1922
+; [https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=NYC&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN New York Clipper]
-* '''Baseball Researcher''' – ''Tom Shieber'', Baseball Hall of Fame
+: Issues available from May 7, 1853 through July 12, 1924 (3605 issues)
-;Approx. Frequency: 8 in last 12 months
+; [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/ The New York Times, TimesMachine]
-;Coverage: All of Baseball history – no blogs on the pre-professional era in past year
+: Issues available from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2002.  **Paid Service
-;URL: http://baseballresearcher.blogspot.com/
+; [https://www.retrosheet.org/ Retrosheet]
+: A large database of everything baseball
-* '''This Game of Games''' – ''[[Jeffrey Kittel]]''
+; [http://research.sabr.org/origins/research/topics SABR Origins Committee's favorite research sub-topics]
-;Approx. Frequency: 20 posts per month
+: Sub-topics that interest the Members of the SABR Origins Committee the most
-;Coverage: St. Louis ballplaying in the 1800s; about a third entries address the Origins Era
+; [http://www.threadsofourgame.com Threads of Our Game]
-;URL: http://thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/
+: A 2014 website devoted to the early US clubs' uniforms
+; [http://www.projectcobb.org.uk UK's "Project Cobb"]
-* '''A Manly Pastime''' – ''[[John Zinn]]''
+: Joe Gray's site for chronicling English baseball and its history (mostly from 1900 on)
-;Approx. Frequency: 1 post per week
+; [https://www.vbba.org/ Vintage Base Ball Association - VBBA]
-;Coverage: New Jersey base ball in the 1800s; most current blogs address the Origins Era
+: Information regarding today's 19th century clubs as well as historical resources
-;URL: http://amanlypastime.blogspot.com/
-* '''New York Clipper''' – ''Jimmy Leiderman''
-;Frequency: 16 in last 12 months, 4 in last 6 months
-;Photography and 19th Century Base Ball: mostly from the Origins Era
-;URL: http://thenewyorkclipper.com/
-* '''Agate Type''' – ''Gary Ashwill''
-;Approx.Frequency: 2 per month
-;Coverage: “Baseball Archeology,” including 1800s ballplaying; no recent pre-1870 content
-;URL: http://agatetype.typepad.com/
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