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• The Hurrah Game: Baseball in Northampton, 1791-1953  + (26 pages of this 93-page book treat base ball's pre-professional period.)

• The National Game  + (2nd Edition, 1911 -- reprinted by Southern Illinois University Press, 2000)
• Our Game. Total Baseball  + (4th edition)
• The Progress of Cricket  + (7th edition. Reprinted in Chronicles of Cricket. London, Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1888: 92-101)
• America's 50th Home Run  + (A 45-minute film on the history of base ball in Hawaii.)
• 100 Years of Buffalo Baseball  + (A single page of this book is devoted to the pre 1870 period, and two more pages treat a local clubs that played before 1880 in the International League and then [starting in 1879] in the young National League.)
• Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game. 1884-2000  + (A snippet view of this book indicates that an initial chapter of at least 12 pages covers local base ball prior to 1884.)
• Unidentified Source  + (About 3 pages of this orphaned MS (Monica?) covers Hawaii ballplaying from 1810 to the arrival of the Spalding tour in 1888.)
• Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut  + (About 4 pages -- 18 through 21 -- appear to cover the period from the first clubs (1858) to the Civil War.)
• Research Notes on Modern BB in Early IL  + (About a dozen refs to baseball up to 1868)
• The History of Baseball in Buffalo  + (About three paragraphs of this 4-page article treat the years prior to 1880.)
• History of Baseball in Portland OR  + (An East Portland club that formed in May 1866 was the first club in the Pacific NW. The narrative then skips to the first pro team in 1883.)
• Baseball: An Informal History  + (Bantam paperbock published 1970)
• The Story of BaseballCountry=  + (Beech Tree edition -- 1999)
• Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball  + (Book has not been evaluated.)
• The Pleasure of the Game: The Story of Toronto Cricket, 1827-1977  + (Book is missing from shelf.)
• Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Burroughs to the Ballparks  + (Book is missing from shelf.)
• The Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland  + (Book is missing from shelf.)
• Early Forms of Cricket  + (Braddon, M. ed.)
• Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years  + (Chapter 1, "The Beginnings," pages 3 - 14, covers the first clubs and the 1860s.)
• Flannels on the Sward: History of Cricket in Americas  + (Chapter 1: Colonial Cousins, the Yankee Game of Wicket, pp. 1 -28. Counting roughly, the book's first 180 or so pages treat the years prior to professional base ball in the US.)
• Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime in the City By the Sea  + (Chapter 2, "Origins and Development," pages 34 - 50, cover the pre-professional era in RI and Newport.)
• The Jersey Game: The History of Modern Baseball from Its Birth to the Big Leagues in the Garden State  + (Chapters 1 and 2, pages 1-39, cover the pre-professional era in NJ)
• Diamonds in the Coal Fields  + (Covers 1876-1960; depth of coverage of early years not known. Area covered in NE Pennsylvania. Coverage may center on a few colorful individuals.)
• History of Cricket  + (DVD)
• The Rise of Milwaukee Baseball . . . 1859-1901  + (Details unknown 11/2013)
• Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide  + (Essays for each of 68 early ballclubs outside the metropolitan area of New York. The average essay is about 5 pages in length.)
• Base Ball Founders; the Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast that Established the Game  + (Essays on each of 40 early clubs in downstate New York, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts, with an average length of about 8 pages.)
• West Virginia Baseball:A History, 1865-2000  + (Extent of coverage not known 11/2013.)
• Every Boy's Book; A Complete Encyclopedia of Sports and Amusements  + (Fourteenth Edition; First edition 1841)
• Baseball in South Bend  + (From an EBay listing, 9/25/2006)
• Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South  + (Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013.)
• Early Baseball in Wahington, DCCountry=US  + (Identifying information to be recovered)
• Email messasge, 2005 --Pre-Major Leaguers in LouisianaCountry=US  + (In May 2005, Sandy mentioned that she was trying to trace members of 1859 New Orleans clubs, and might later compile a spreadsheet on her findings.)
• The Philadelphia Cricket Club, 1854-1954  + (Information form an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.)
• A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953  + (Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005.)
• Baseball in New Haven  + (Information from an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.)
• Baseball in Catawba County NC  + (Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006)
• Baseball in Portsmouth  + (Information from an EBay posting, 10/31/2006. Pictorial History)
• Seventy-five Years on Louisville Diamonds (booklet)  + (Information taken from an EBay offering in 2005.)
• A Manly Pastime -- A Blog by John Zinn  + (John Zinn is compiling accounts of base ball in all of New Jersey up to 1870. He periodically posts essays on what he is finding on this site. He is now completing his search of all recorded NJ newspaper coverage in this era.)
• Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years  + (Most of the book's coverage of the Origins Era are in Chapter 1 ("Before Baseball"), pages 21-26, and Chapter 2 ("Notes on the Development of the National Pastime"), pages 27 - 37.)
• Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball  + (Most of this book is reported to cover the 1870s.)
• Baseball in San Diego:From the Pares to Petco  + (Mostly a book of photographs, reportedly.)
• Haymakers and Daisycutters: Troy and the National Pastime  + (No references appear in the 12-page section of the facsimile kindly provided by John Thorn.)
• Baseball in Indianapolis  + (Not assessed as of Nov. 2013)
• A Question of Territory. Troy’s Baseball Heritage  + (Not evaluated.)
• Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a GameCountry=US  + (Not evaluated.)