[Rarebooks] baseball

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

GREEN, GUY W., (of Lincoln Nebraska.)  FUN AND FROLIC WITH AN INDIAN 
BASE BALL TEAM. FOURTH EDITION.  Lincoln: Woodruff-Collins Press, 1907.
Original pictorial wraps, 93, [1] pages.  Text illustrations.  NOT a 
mint copy, but complete and uncommon.  Printed on pulp paper, front 
wrapper has blank piece gone from lower corner, rear wrapper chipped 
and with a tear, tear in title leaf without loss, margin of last two 
leaves chipped, spine eroded.  Pages 79-93 contain team records for 
1897-1906; the last page has an unused scorecard.  The covers contain 
advts for the Reach ball, the "pneumatico" base ball bat made in 
York, Pa., and C. A. Green's Barber Shops  in Lincoln, "the largest
barber business west of the Mississippi."  (The author was manager of 
the "Oklahoma Indians" team which played  teams such as Lost Nation, Iowa,
Surprise, Nebr., Apple River, Ill.,  Paw Paw, Ill., East Palestine, 
Ohio, Menonomie,
Wisc., Tippecanoe, Ohio, Beaver Dam, Ky., &c, as well as a number of 
college teams.  "At Burnside, Ky., most of the spectators occupied 
points of vantage on the mountain side. A few people paid, but they 
did so by accident."  A glimpse of a bygone era 100 years ago.)  $120.00

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