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600 Pages

Binding is in Blue Cloth with Cover Design Stamped in Gold

115 Full Page Plates Including a Series of

Cartoons by

Homer

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America's National Qame By A. G. SPALDING Net

Price, $2.00

A book of

600 pages, profusely illustrated full page engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. Davenport, the famous American artist. No man in America is better equipped with over 100

to write on tional

all

Game

the varied phases of the

than

is

A. G.

Spalding.

observation and experience began

game was young.

when

NaHis the

He

gained fame as a pitcher forty years ago, winning a record as player that has never yet been equalled. He was associated with the management of the pastime through trying years of struggle

He

against prevailing evils.

opposed

gamblers; he fought to eradicate drunkenness he urged and introduced new and higher ideals for the sport ; he was quick to see that ;

and the business management of clubs, at the same time and by the same men, were imprache knew that ball players ticable might be quite competent as magnates, but not while playing he was in the forefront of the fight against syndithe game cating Base Ball and making of a Nation's pastime a sordid Trust; he was the pioneer to lead competing American Base Ball teams to a foreign land he took two champion teams to Great Britain in 874, and two others on a tour of the world in 1 888-9 he was present at the birth of the National League, and has done as much as any living American to uphold and prolong the life of this great pioneer Base Ball organization. ball playing

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When A. Game

G. Spalding

about America's National he speaks by authority of that he does know, because talks

he has been in the councils of the management whenever there have been times of strenuous endeavor to purge it from abuses and keep it clean for the people of America young and old. In this work Mr. Spalding, after explaining the causes that led him into the undertaking, begins with the inception of the sport; shows how it developed, by natural stages from a boy with a ball to eighteen men, ball, bats and bases

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gives credit for the

the playing of the

town, N, Y.:

first

game

scientific

application of system to

Abner Doubleday,

of CoopersBase Ball club shows how the sport in its early days how gamto

treats of the first

;

rowdyism terrorized bling and drunkenness brought the pastime into disfavor with the masses, and how early organizations were unable ;

that insidiously crept in. He then very forceful pictures of the struggle to eradicate gambling, drunkenness and kindred evils, and shows how the efforts of strong men accomplished the salvation of to control

draws a

the evils

series of

American game and placed it in the position it occuto-day— the most popular outdoor pastime in the world. Interspersed throughout this interesting book are reminiscences of Mr. Spalding's own personal observations and experiences in the game as player, manager and magnate, the great pies

covering a period of

many

years.

Some

of these stories

deal with events of great import to Base Ball, and others

have to do with personal prominent in the game

acts

and

in earlier

characteristics of players

days

— old

time favorites

Harry and George Wright, A. C. Anson, Mike Kelly, Billy Sunday and others. This book should be in the library of every father in the land, for it shows how his boy may be built up physically and morally through a high-class pastime. It should be in like

the hands of every lad in America, for possibilities to

American youth

it

demonstrates the

of rising to heights of eminent

material success through a determined adherence to things

make

that

for the upbuilding of character in organizations as

well as of men.

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How to Play Base Ball. How to Bat. How to Run Bases. How to Pitch. How to Catch. How to Play First Base. How to Play Second Base. How to Play Third Base. How to Play Shortstop. How to Play the Outfield. How to Organize a Base Ball [Club. League. How to Organize a Base Ball How to Manage a Base Ball

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Ready Reckoner of Base Ball Percentages.

How to Score. BASE BALL AUXILIARIES

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No. 355 No. 356

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Minor League Base Ball Guid e Book National League of Prof. Base Ball Clubs.

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Spalding's Official Ice Hockey Guide. Field Hockey.

Ring Hockey.

Spalding's

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How to Play Basket Ball. BASKET BALL AUXILIARY

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No. 9 Spalding's

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259 55 246 317 331 342

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How to Run 100 Yards.

Distance and Cross Country [Thrower. Running. How to Become a Weight Official Sporting Rules. Athletic Training for School-

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Schoolyard Athletics. Walking for Health and Competition.

ATHLETIC AUXILIARIES Intercollegiate Official HandGirls' Athletics. [book. Y. M. C. A. Official Handbook.

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How to Swim. Speed Swimming.

How to Row. How to Become a Skater. How to Train for Bicycling. Canoeing. Roller Skating Guide.

Fencing. Boxing. Fencing.

236 102 200 143 262 29 191 289

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Grading of Gymnastic Exer-

No. 104

[Dumb Bell Drills. Graded Calisthenics and cises.

No. 214 No. 254 Barnjum Bar Bell Drill. [Games No. 158 Indoor and Outdoor Gymnastic No. 124 How to Become a Gymnast. No. 287 Fancy Dumb Bell and March[Apparatus. ing Drills. No. 327 Pyramid Building Without No. 328 Exercises on the Parallel Bars. No. 329 Pyramid Building with Wands, Chairs and Ladders. No. 845 Official Handbook I. C. A. A. Gymnasts of America.

Group XVI.

Physical culture

10 Minutes' Exercise for Busy Men. [and Care of the Body. Scientific Physical Training

No. 149 No. 208 No. 185 No. 213 No. 238 No. 234 No. 261 No. 285

Physical Education and HyHints on Health. [giene. 285 Health Answers. Muscle Building. School Tactics and Maze RunTensing Exercises. [ning. Health by Muscular Gymnastics,

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