The Early Years of Baseball: 1885–1922
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Step back into the golden age of America’s pastime with The Early Years of Baseball: 1885–1922 PDF Archive. This extraordinary collection includes 71 rare and historic PDF files—a total of 11,770 pages—filled with vintage baseball books, manuals, yearbooks, and instructional guides.
Discover how each position was taught over a century ago. Explore detailed histories of the sport from its earliest days, and dive into rich statistics and stories about players and teams long forgotten. These are original documents that reveal how baseball was played, understood, and celebrated as it grew into America’s national sport.
Whether you’re a baseball historian, collector, or simply a fan of the game, this archive is a treasure trove of insight and nostalgia you won’t find anywhere else.
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The Early Years of Baseball: 1885–1922
A history of the Boston base ball club (1897)
Base ball and base ball players (1912)
Base ball for beginners (1921)
Baseball
Base-ball How to become a player, with the origin, history, and explanation of the game (1888)
Baseball notes for coaches and players (1916)
Baseball, individual play and team play in detail (1915)
Constitution and playing rules of the Eastern league of professional Baseball clubs (1894)
Constitution and playing rules of the National League of professional baseball clubs (1913)
Hancock’s indoor base ball guide (1891)
How to bat (1905)
How to catch (1913)
How to catch (1917)
How to organize a league (1921)
How to pitch (1911)
How to pitch (1915)
How to play base ball (1889)
How to play base ball (1905)
How to play base ball (1908)
How to play base ball (1910)
How to play base ball (1919)
How to play baseball a manual for boys (1914)
How to play baseball (1903)
How to play baseball (1913)
How to play first base (1905)
How to play first base (1913)
How to play first base (1917)
How to play second base (1905)
How to play second base (1914)
How to play second base (1920)
How to play shortstop (1907)
How to play shortstop (1913)
How to play the infield and the outfield (1921)
How to play the outfield (1913)
How to play third base (1905)
How to score (1919)
How to umpire (1920)
How to umpire, including knotty problems (1917)
How to umpire_ how to captain a team_ how to manage a team_ how to coach_ (1907)
Official base ball rules (1920)
Official guide of the National association of professional base ball leagues for 1901-1904 (1904)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1894)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1902)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1903)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1904)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1905)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1906)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1907)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1908)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1910)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1911)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1912)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1913)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1918)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1919)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (1922)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues(1914)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues(1915)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues(1916)
Official Guide of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues(1917)
Practical ball playing (1895)
Practical hints on base ball practice (1905)
Richter’s history and records of base ball (1914)
Right off the bat_ baseball ballads (1911)
Scientific baseball (1913)
Spalding’s official metropolitan basebook and official inter-city Baseball association guide (1909)
Spalding’s official metropolitan basebook and official inter-city Baseball association guide (1913)
Stories of the base-ball field (1890)
The art of base ball batting (1885)
The art of batting and base running (1886)
The art of pitching and fielding (1885)
Touching second_ the science of baseball (1910)