Links

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