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Richter, F. C. (1909) A Brief History of Baseball. Sporting Life Publications.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Doubleday, A. (1939) A Century of Baseball. Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Printing Company. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Century-Baseball-1839-1939-/370511002543)
Lester, J. A. (1951) A Century of Philadelphia Cricket. University of Pennsylvania Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Butler, S. H. (1946) A Concise History of Cricket. Cricket Book Society.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bouchier, N. B., and R. K. Barney (1988) "A Critical Examination of a Source on Early Ontario Baseball: The Reminiscence of Adam E. Ford." Journal of Sport History. 15(1): 75-90.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, P. (2006) A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. Chicago, Ivan Dee.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Staats, Richard (2003) A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and the Silver Ball. (This source has not been evaluated. According to a 2005 EBay offering, it tells how "Base Ball exploded with enthusiasm across northeast Ohio in 1867.")
Clark, J. (2003) A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
unknown (1985) A History of Baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area. unknown. (This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013.)
Ross, G. (1972) A History of Cricket. London, Arthur Barket.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Green, B. (1988) A History of CricketCountry=. London, Barrie and Jenkins.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Petula, Nickolas (1992) A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953. (spiral bound). (Information from a terse EBay offering , 2005.)
Twohey, George (1897) A History of the Boston Baseball Club. (The first 60 pages of this book cover the context in which the Boston Club arose, including the rise and fate of the Massachusetts game and the initial MA clubs playing by Association rules.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Zinn, John () 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.)
read online: http://amanlypastime.blogspot.com/
Gonzalez, C. (2007) "A New Perspective on Mexican Baseball Origins." Base Ball. 1(2): 64-72.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Block, D. (2008) "A Peek into the Pocket-Book." Base Ball. 2(1): 17-28.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Altherr, T. L. (2000) "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine. 8(2): 15-49.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Chadwick, H. (1881) A Plea for Base-Ball. New York Times: 5.
Pietruzsa, D. (1992) A Question of Territory. Troy’s Baseball Heritage. Troy, NY, Society for American Baseball Research: 13. (Not evaluated.)
Hershberger, R. (2007) "A Reconstruction of Philadelphia Town Ball." Base Ball. 1(2): 28-43.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Unknown (1992) A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach. 26-page booklet. 26. (This spiral-bound booklet was listed on EBay in 2004, but has not been obtained by Protoball. It was said to have a chronology from 1856 on.)
Birley, D. (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Adelman, M. A. (1986) A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870. University of Illinois Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Elston, G. (2001) A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845 - 2000. Halcyon Press.
Guttman, A. (1988) A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports. University of North Carolina Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Levine, P. (1985) A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. Oxford University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
MacDougall, Hugh (2011) Abner Graves: The Man who Brought Baseball to Cooperstown. 44. (This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011).)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Dulles, F. R. (1940) America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation 1607-1940Country=. New York, Appleton-Century.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://archive.org/stream/americalearnstop007872mbp
Voigt, D. Q. (1976) America Through Baseball. Chicago, Nelson-Hall.
Johnson, Drew (2013) America's 50th Home Run. Vimeo. (A 45-minute film on the history of base ball in Hawaii.)
read online: https://vimeo.com/83943744
Voigt, D. Q. (1966) American Baseball: From Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System. Oklahoma University Press. (reprinted by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Chadwick, H. (1868) American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes. New York: 2. (published in book form, 1996)
Brewster, P. G. (1953) American Nonsinging Games. University of Oklahoma Press.
Holliman, J. (1931) American Sports (1785-1835). Durhan, NC, Seeman Press. (republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Rader, B. G. (1983) American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators. Prentice-Hall.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Spalding, A. G. (1911) America’s National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginnings, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball. New York, American Sports Publishing Company. (reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1992)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Betts, J. R. (1974) America’s Sporting Heritage: 1850-1950. Addison Wesley.
Blaine, D. P. (1840) An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. London, A. Stottswoods.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Viney, N., and Neil Grant (1978) An Illustrated History of Ball Games. London, Book Club Associates.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Krout, J. A. (1929) Annals of American Sport. New Haven, Yale University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Read, W. W. (1897) Annals of Cricket. Sampson, Low, Marston.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Miller, S. G. (2004) Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. University of California Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hardwick, Caleb () Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia (website).
read online: http://arkbaseball.com
Arlott, J. a. T., F. (1977) Arlott and Trueman on Cricket. London, British Broadcasting Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Casway, J. (1992) "At The Old Ball Game." Temple Review.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Palmer, H. C., et al. (1889) Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia. W. A. Houghton.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Presbey, F. (1901) Athletics at Princeton: A History. New York, Frank Presbrey Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Manchester, H. (1991) Ball Games: 1800-1860. Four Centuries of Sport in America: 1490-1890. Lyon, Mississippi, Derrydale Press: 121-130.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Henderson, R. W. (1947) Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games. New York, Rockport Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Sutter, L. M. (2009) Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South. Jefferson NC, NcFarland. (Geographical and decadal coverage unknown as of 11/2013.)
Morland, G. (1914) Balldom: A History of Baseball. (Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Benson, M. (1989) Ballparks of North America: 1845 to Present. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Dunning, E., and Kenneth Sheard (1979) Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players. Oxford, Martin Robinson.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1859) Base Ball - Who Plays the Genuine Game?. Buffalo Morning Express.
Morris, Peter, et. al., Editors (2013) Base Ball Founders; the Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast that Established the Game. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 332. (Essays on each of 40 early clubs in downstate New York, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts, with an average length of about 8 pages.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter, et. al., editors (2012) Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 354. (Essays for each of 68 early ballclubs outside the metropolitan area of New York. The average essay is about 5 pages in length.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter, et.al. (2012) Base Ball Pioneers: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1887) "Base Ball Reminiscences: Part I - The Evolution of Base Ball." National Daily Base Ball Gazette.
Shiffert, J. (2006) Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland: 288. (The first two chapters (30 pages) cover the period before the Civil War.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Egan, J. M. (2008) Base Ball on the Western reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. (The first 50 pages include ballplaying befor3 1870, including game summaries from a number of places in NE Ohio.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Church, S. R. (1902) Base Ball, 1845-1871. San Francisco. (Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Mayhew/Baker, e. (1858) Base BallCountry=. A Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated. Boston, Mayhew and Baker: 20 - 24.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://www.archive.org/stream/manualofcricketb00bost
Roff, E. (1912) Base ball and base ball players. Chicago, E. A. Roff.
Altherr, Thomas (2009) "Base is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's base from the 13th to 20th Centuries." Base Ball. 3(1): 67-79.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1870) "Base-Ball as a Pastime and as a Business." Spirit of the Times. 23: 235.
Camp, W. (1889) "Base-Ball for the Spectator." The Century. 38: 831-838.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ward, J. M. (1888) Base-ball: How to Become a Player. Philadelphia, The Athletic Publishing Company. (SABR reprint, 1993)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1869) "Base-ball: Review of the Season of ’68, With a Chapter on the Rise, Decline, and Future Prospects of the Game." Spirit of the Times. 19: 359.
Orem, P. (1961) Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena, CA, private printing.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Menke, F. G. (1944) Baseball (Menke). Encyclopedia of Sports. A. S. Barnes: 55ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Miers, E. S. (1967) Baseball (Miers). Grosset and Dunlap.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Smith, R. (1949) Baseball (Smith). Simon and Schuster.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Menke, F. G. (1947) Baseball -- Major. The New Encyclopedia of Sports. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company: 77ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Block, D. (2005) Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game. University of Nebraska Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Marchiano, (Ms) Sam, Director (2010) Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings. MLB.com.
Collection, E. C. C. (2000) Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from its Beginning. Castle Books.
Morris, P. (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan. University of Michigan Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter (2003) Baseball Fever: Early Basebnall in Michigan. U of Michigan Press: 362.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Levine, P., Ed. (1989) Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research. Meckler Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Agen, M. (1927) "Baseball Known in Old World Under Various Names." Baseball. 38: 521.
Nash, P. J. (2003) Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. Arcadia.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peter () Baseball Pioneers.
Grossinger, R. (1977) Baseball Variants. Baseball I Gave You the Best Years of My Life. Oakland, North Atlantic Books: 21-24.
Bartlett, A. (1951) Baseball and Mr. Spalding: The History and Romance of Baseball. Farrar, Straus and Young.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Daniel, W. Harrison (2003) Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game. 1884-2000. Jefferson NC, McFarland. (A snippet view of this book indicates that an initial chapter of at least 12 pages covers local base ball prior to 1884.)
Henderson, R. W. (1939) "Baseball and Rounders." Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 43(4): 303-314.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Durso, J. (1986) Baseball and the American Dream. The Sporting News.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Sarchet, C. M. (1908) "Baseball as Played By the Indians." Baseball. 1: 26-28.
Sumner, J. (1989) Baseball at Salisbury Prison Camp. Baseball History. Westport, CT: 19-27.
Knowles, R. G., and Richard Morton (1896) Baseball in America. Baseball: The "Oval" Series of Games. London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd: 82 ff.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Smith, R. (1961) Baseball in America: An Illustrated History of Our National Pastime. Holt Rinehart and Winston.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bready, J. (1998) Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years. Johns Hopkins University Press: 230. (Chapter 1, "The Beginnings," pages 3 - 14, covers the first clubs and the 1860s.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Kirsch, G. B. (2003) Baseball in Blue and Gray. Princeton University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peeler, Tim, and B. McLawhorn (2004) Baseball in Catawba County NC. Arcadia: 128. (Information from an EBay listing, 9/8/2006)
Ellard, H. (2004) Baseball in Cincinnati: A History. McFarland: 199. (Originally published in 1908.
Pages 17-92 cover the growth of base ball from 1860 to the formations of the Red Stockings in 1869.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Tootle, James (2002) Baseball in Columbus. Arcadia. (This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history.)
Poillucci, J. V. (2001) Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a GameCountry=US. Routledge Books. (Not evaluated.)
Christopherson, Jason (2003) Baseball in Eau Claire (Pictoral History). Arcadia. (This book has no been examined as of 11/2013.)
McCarthy, Kevin (1996) Baseball in Florida. Pineapple Press. (This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying.)
Myers, Minor (1988) Baseball in Geneva. Geneva Historical Society: 22. (The first 4 pages of this mimeo booklet cover pre-1870 ballplaying.)
several () "Baseball in Illinois." Illinois History. 14(7): 147-167. (this April 1961 issue carries 9 articles on IL baseball in the past, mostly during the 20th century.)
Madden, W.C. (2003) Baseball in Indianapolis. Arcadia. (Not assessed as of Nov. 2013)
Thornley, Stew (2006) Baseball in Minnesota: A Definitive History. Minnesota Historical Society Press. (This book has not been scrutinized in Nov. 2013.)
Rubin, Sam (2003) Baseball in New Haven. Arcadia. (Information from an EBay listing, 9/25/2006.)
Cvornyek, R. L. (2003) Baseball in Newark: Images of Baseball. Arcadia.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Federal Writers' Project (Illinois) (1939) Baseball in Old Chicago. Chicago, A. C. McClurg. (Pages 1-9 supply the context for the rise of pro baseball in Chicago and the surrounding area.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Shampoe, Clay, and T. Garrett (2004) Baseball in Portsmouth. Arcadia. (Information from an EBay posting, 10/31/2006. Pictorial History)
Pitoniak, Scott (2003) Baseball in Rochester. Arcadia Publishing.
Swank, Bill (2004) Baseball in San Diego:From the Pares to Petco. Arcadia. (Mostly a book of photographs, reportedly.)
Kovach, John M. (2004) Baseball in South Bend. Arcadia: 128 pages. (From an EBay listing, 9/25/2006)
unknown (2003) Baseball in Trenton. Arcadia.
Wittke, C. (1952) "Baseball in its Adolescence." Ohio State Archeological and Historical Quarterly. 61(2): 111-127.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Astifan, P. (1990) "Baseball in the 19th Century." Rochester History. 52(3): 2-23.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Overmyer, Jim, et. al (tbd) Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond.
Christiano, Gregory (2013) "Baseball in the Bronx, Before the Yankees." The Bronx County Historical Journal. 50(Spring/Fall 2013): Baltimore, PublishAmerica: 16-31.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Thorn, John (2011) Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. Simon and Schuster.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Setzer, J. (1996) Baseball in the Nineteenth Century. Society for American Baseball Research.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Barrett, P. V. (1910) "Baseball in the Seventeenth Century." Baseball. 5(75-76).
Mehl, E. (1948) "Baseball in the Stone Age." Western Folklore. 7(2): 145-161.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Rader, B. G. (1996) Baseball – North American 1. Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. Santa Barbara CA, ABC-CLIO: 91-99.
Nugent, W. H. (1925) "Baseball's Age of Innocence." American Legion Weekly. 7(4-5): 14-17.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ryczek, William J. (2009) Baseball's First Inning: A History of the National Pastime Through the Civil War. Yes. Jefferson NC, McFarland and Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bouchier, N. B. (2003) Baseball, Boosters, and the Amateur Not-for-Profit Approach to Community Sport. For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town. Ontario, McGill-Queens University Press: 100.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Vecsey, G. (2006) Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game. New York, The Modern Library.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Rader, B. G. (1992) Baseball: A History of America’s Game. University of Illinois Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ward, G. C., and Ken Burns (1994) Baseball: An Illustrated History. Alfred A. Knopf.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Wallop, D. (1969) Baseball: An Informal History. W. W. Norton. (Bantam paperbock published 1970)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Leitner, I. A. (1972) Baseball: Diamond in the Rough. Criterion Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Merrifield, A. S. (1990) Baseball: Early History to 1869. Sports Encyclopedia of North America. Gulf Breeze, FL, Academic International Press: 139-152.
Danzig, A., and Joe Reichler (1959) Baseball: Its Great Players, Teams, and Managers. Prentice-Hall.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon. (1884) Baseball: Its Rise and Progress. The New York Clipper Annual. New York Clipper: 29-36.
Nemec, D., and Saul Wisnia (1997) Baseball: More Than 150 Years. Publications International Ltd.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Seymour, H. (1960) Baseball: The Early Years. (Oxford University Press printed a later edition in 1989.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Seymour, H. (1990) Baseball: The People’s Game. Oxford University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Stewart, M. (1998) Baseball; A History of the National Pastime. Grolier.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Guttman, A. (1994) BaseballCountry=. Games and Empire: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism. Columbia University Press: 71-96.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
McCulloch, R., Ed. (2000) Baseball’s Roots: The Fascinating Birth of America’s Game. Warwick.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Moult, T., ed. (1935) Bat and Ball; A New Book of Cricket. Arthur Barker Ltd. (Reprinted in 1960 by Sprotsman's Book Club)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Parker, B. (1967) "Batter Up: Fort Wayne's Baseball History." Old Fort News. 30(3).
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Parker, Bob (1967) Batter Up: Ft. Wayne's Baeball History 1862-1967. (This book has not been evaluated n Nov. 2013. Available information is taken from an EBay offer in 2006.)
Maigaard, P. (1941) "Battingball Games." Genus. 5.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Soos, T. (1997) Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918. Hyannis, MA, Parnassus Imprints.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Irwin, W. (1909) "Before the Professionals Came." Collier's. 43: 12-15.
Louden, G. A. (1939) Beginnings an d Development of the Game of Baseball. Cooperstown, self-published.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Frommer, H. (1995) Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Burroughs to the Ballparks. Dallas, Tavlor Publishing. (Book is missing from shelf.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
McNary, K. (2003) Black Baseball: A History of African-Americans and the National Game. PRC Publishing, London.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ryczek, W. J. (1992) Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball's National Association. Wallingford CT, Colebrook Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peverelly, C. (1866) Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing and Yachting Clubs of the United States. New York, privately printed. (reprinted in 2005 as Peverelly's National Game, John Freyer and Mark Rucker, eds., Arcadia)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Daniels, G. P. (1845) Boy’s and Girl’s Book of Sports. Providence, Geo. Daniels.
Biewala, Michael (2003) Bridgeport Baseball. Aarcadia. (This book has not been assessed. It is presented as a pictorial history.)
Morris, P. (2008) But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Norridge, J. (2008) Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? How the British Invented Sport. Allen Lane.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ryczek, William (2009) Chapter 10. Baseball in Philadelphia (of 'Baseball's First Inning'). Jefferson NC, McFarland. (Pages 14 ff trace evidence on early modern baseball clubs in Pha.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bailey, Bob (1999) Chapter 1: Beginnings. From Amateur Teams of Disgrace in the National League. unpublished: 15. (Pages 1-8 of this chapter cover ballplaying prior to the founding of Louisville National League in 1876.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Genovese, Daniel L. (2004) Chapter 2 -- Wicket Ball: The Predecessor to 'The New York Game'. The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History Westfield Baseball. 9-24.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Peter Morris, et. al. () Chapter 5, Massachusetts.
Altherr, T. L. (2008) "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games." Base Ball. 2(1): 29-43.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Riess, S. A. (1989) City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. University of Illinois Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hajdu, G. (1971) Collection of Hungarian Folk Games. Budapest. (translated from Hungarian 'Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye')
Koppett, L. (1998) Concise History of Major League Baseball. Temple University Press: 1-14.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Gini, C. (1941) "Considerazioni ed Ipotesi Sull'origine del 'Om el Mahag'." Genus. 5(1-2): 73-86.
Cardus, N. (1930) Cricket (Cardus). London, Longmans Green and Co.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Scholefield, P. (1990) Cricket Laws and Terms. Kent Town, Australia, Axiom Publishing.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Blofield, H. (2001) Cricket and All That; An Irreverent History. Coronet.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Blancke, C. (1891) "Cricket in America." Harper's Weekly. 35: 725.
Sentance, P. D. (2006) Cricket in America, 1710-2000. Jefferson, NC, McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Phillips, B. (1894) "Cricket in the Forties." Harper's Weekly. 38: 908 ff.
Bowen, R. (1970) Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World. Eyre and Spottiswoode.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Martin-Jenkins, C. (1995) Cricket: A Way of Life. Marks and Spenser. (1984 hardback edition by Century Publishing)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Anon (1984) Cricket: History of the Game, Equipment, .... St. Peters, Australia, Gregory's Publishing Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Green, S. (1982) Cricketing Bygones. Shire Publications.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hammond, W. (1952) Cricket’s Secret HistoryCountry=. London, Stanley Paul & Co..
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Moesche, C. R. (2000) Day-by-Day in Baseball History. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Kashatus, William () Diamonds in the Coal Fields. Jefferson NC, McFarland. (Covers 1876-1960; depth of coverage of early years not known. Area covered in NE Pennsylvania. Coverage may center on a few colorful individuals.)
Humber, W. (1995) Diamonds in the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada. Oxford University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Zoss, J., and John Bowman (1996) Diamonds in the Rough. Contemporary Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bowman, J. S., and Joel Zoss (2004) Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball. University of Nebraska Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Williams, M. E. (1985) Double Century: 200 Years of Cricket in The Times. Collins and Willow.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Lewis, T. (1987) Double Century: The Story of MCC and Cricket. Hodder and Stoughton.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bailey, Bob (1990) Draft Chapter on Beginnings of Ballplaying in KY. (This is a draft chapter 1 for a project that was not realized. I have misfiled it, but it will pop up.
It cites a finding by Dean Sullivan that stoolball and cricket were well-established in Louisville in about 1850.)
Henderson, R. W. (1977) Early American Sport: A Checklist of Books by American and Foreign Authors Published in America Prior to 1860. Rutherford, NJ, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Melville, T. (2001) Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ceresi, Frank, and C. McMains (TBD) "Early Baseball in Wahington, DCCountry=US." Baseball Reseach JournaL: 19-25. (Identifying information to be recovered)
Goulstone, J. (1972) Early Club and Village Cricket. (Private publication)
Macgregor, R. R. (1879) Early Forms of Cricket 39. Belgravia. 450-456. (Braddon, M. ed.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Sullivan, D. A., Ed. (1995) Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball 1825-1908. University of Nebraska Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Howorth, P. (1995) East Yorkshire Cricket 1778-1914. Driffield, Lowndes Publications.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Gale, F. (1871) Echoes from Old Cricket Fields. London, Simpkin, Marshall.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Gilbert, T. (1995) Elysian Fields: The Birth of Baseball. Grolier.
Derenbecker, Sandy () 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.)
Collins, T., et al. (2005) Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports. Routledge.
Levinson, D., and Karen Christopher, Ed. (1999) Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Brookes, C. (1978) English Cricket: The Game and its Players Through the Ages. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hole, C. (1949) English Sports and Pastimes. London, B. T. Batsford, Ltd.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Routledge, E., ed. (1881) Every Boy's Book; A Complete Encyclopedia of Sports and Amusements. London, George Routledge and Sons. (Fourteenth Edition; First edition 1841)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Fogel, H. S. (1921) Evolution of Baseball from 1833 Up to the Present Time. Philadelphia?, Daily Evening Telegraph.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Hazlitt, W. C. (1905) Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs. London, Reeves and Turner.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: http://archive.org/stream/popularantiquit01branuoft
Hulbert, J. (2007) "Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day." Base Ball. 1(1): 73-77.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Bene, D. D. (1898) Fifty Years Reminiscences of Scottish Cricket. Glasgow.
Patel, Jayesh (2013) Flannels on the Sward: History of Cricket in Americas. Jayesh Patel: 385. (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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Willughby, F., and Clive L. Hardy (2003) Francis Willughby’s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes. Ashgate Publishing. (based on a 1670s manuscript)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
McCulloch, R., Ed. (1998) From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball. Warwick.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Shiffert, J. (2007) "From Pastime to Monopoly." Pennsylvania Legacies. 7(1): 16-21.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Millen, P. (2001) From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Guttman, A. (1978) From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports. Columbia University Press.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Endrei, W., and Laszlo Zolnay (1986) Fun and Games in Old Europe. Budapest, Corvina Klado.
McKinnon, L. C. (1910) "Games Played with a Ball." Baseball. 4: 71-72.
Newell, W. W. (1883) Games and Songs of American Children. New York, Dover. (1963 reprint)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Brewster, P. G. (1947) "Games and Sports in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature." Western Folklore. 6(2): 143-156.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Pardon, G. (1858) Games for All Seasons. London, James Blackwood.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Wert, J. D. (1987) "Gentlemen Don’t Steal Bases." Sports History. 1(1): 34-41.
Warner, P. (1950) Gentlemen v. Players, 1806-1949. London, George G. Harrap and Co.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Block, David (2011) "German Book Describes Das Englisch Base-ball: But Was It Baseball or Rounders?Country=United States." Base Ball. 5(1): 50 - 54.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Lusted, Andrew (2013) Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866. Lewes, England.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Burke, Bob, et. al. (1999) Glory Days of Summer; the History of Baseball in Oklahoma.. (This 470-page book evidently traces the OK careers of ballplayers. The EBay offeror did not mention that it covers earliest play there.)
Lansche, G. (1991) Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered. Dallas, Taylor.
Liberman, N. (2003) Glove Affairs: The Romance, History and Tradition of the Baseball Glove. Chicago, Triumph.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Arcidiacono, David (2003) Grace, Grit, and Growling: The Hartford Dark Blues Base Ball Club, 1874-1877. David Arcidiacono. (The initial 5 pages describe the runup to the foundation of the Dark Blues.)
Gershman, M. (1993) Green Pastures (1845-1875). Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark. Houghton Mifflin: 5-23.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Brooke, R., and Peter Matthews (1988) Guiness Cricket Firsts. Guiness Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Goulstone, J. (2001) Hambledon: The Men and the Myths. Cambridge, England, Roger Heavens: 1-7.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Devine, C. (2003) Harry Wright: The Father of Professional Baseball. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Puff, Richard (unknown) Haymakers and Daisycutters: Troy and the National Pastime. Committee to Preserve Troy's Baseball Heritage: 12 pages. (No references appear in the 12-page section of the facsimile kindly provided by John Thorn.)
Berenbak, Adam (2014) "Henderson, Cartwright, and the 1953 US Congress." The Baseball Research Journal. 43(2 (Fall 2014)): SABR: 34-35. (This short article traces the idea that Robert Henderson was officially commended by Congress as showing that Alexander Cartwright, not Abner Doubleday, invented baseball. The author reports that no such commendation can be found.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Schiff, A. J. (2008) "Henry Chadwick: The 'Father of Baseball' Was a Sportswriter." National Pastime. 28: 26-29.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Cleaver, J. D. (1965) Heritage of a National Game: Social Baseball 1845-1875. State University of New York Press.
Lange, F. W. (1938) History of Baseball in California and Pacific Coast Leagues 1847-1938; Memories of an Old Time Baseball Player. Oakland, Privately Printed.
Anon (2009) 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.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Gower, D. (2002) History of Cricket. Pellinore Productions. (DVD)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Betts, J. R. (1971) "Home Front, Battle Field, and Sport During the Civil War." Research Quarterly. 42.
Danielson, M. N. (1997) Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis. Princeton University Press.
Seymour, H. (1956) "How Baseball Began." Historical Society Quarterly: 369-385. (Reprinted in John Thorn, ed., The Armchair Book of Baseball: An All-Star Lineup Celebrates America’s National Pastime [Galahad Books, 1997], pp 283-295.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
McCulloch, R. (1995) How Baseball Began: The Long Overlooked Truth about the Birth of Baseball. Warwick. (reprinted by McFarland, 2001)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Brasch, R. (1970) How Did Sports Begin? A Look at the Origins of Man at Play. New York, David McKay Company.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Cummings, C. (1997) How I Pitched the First Curve. The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball. New York, Galahad Books: 468-470. (first published in 1985 or 1987. J. Thorn, editor)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Chadwick, A. (1995) Illustrated History of Baseball. Chartwell Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Felber, Bill, editor (2013) Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century. Phoenix, AZ, SABR: 290. (Twenty-seven of SABR's 100 "Greatest Games" of the 1800s occurred before the first professional league appeared in 1871. Each game is described in an essay of 2 or 3 pages. Includes illustrations.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Rae, S. (2001) It's Not Cricket; A History of Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game. London, Faber and Faber.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Antonelli, Johnny (2012) Johnny Antonelli: A Baseball Memoir. RIT Press.
Anon () Juab County (UT) Information for Students. (This site describes a 5-hour game played by teams of nine in October 1875. The players had send to New York for a rule book, but played before the book arrived. The score of the game was 87-17. The winning team was to receive a "quarter of beef."
This game was said to have been the first played in Utah, and likely the first west of the Mississippi. No sources for the account are given.)
read online: http://w.juab travel.com/kids.htm, accessed May 2012
Loeffler, R. (2006) Key Points in the Evolution of the Baseball from the Early 1800s to 1872. 8.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Ivor-Campbell, F. (2007) "Knickerbocker Base Ball: The Birth and Infancy of the Modern Game." Base Ball. 1(2): 55-66.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
KBB Club () Knickerbocker Score Books, Game Books, and Meeting Logs. (On microfilm from NYPL; SABR has a copy of the set as well as the Chadwick and Spalding and Wright scrapbooks and diaries.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Dubois, Alexander (2018) "Litchfield and the Old Connecticut Game of Wicket." Litchfield Historical Journal.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
read online: https://blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/?p=627
Terry, J. L. (2002) Long Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. McFarland.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Helyar, J. (1994) Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball. Villard Books.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Arcidiacono, David (2010) Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut. Jefferson NC, McFarland: 260. (About 4 pages -- 18 through 21 -- appear to cover the period from the first clubs (1858) to the Civil War.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Morris, Peter (2013) Massachusetts (Chapter Five of Morris' "Baseball Founders"). Baseball Founders. Jefferson NC, McFarland and Company: 260 - 319.
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection
Kirsch, G. B. (1991) Massachusetts Baseball and Cricket, 1840-1870. Sports in Massachusetts: Historical Essays. Westfield, MA, Institute for Massachusetts Studies: 1-15. (R. Story, ed.)
a holding in The Buzz McCray Collection