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FIRST BEADLES BASEBALL GUIDE - 1860
In 1860 the first publicly available baseball guide was Beadle's Dime Baseball Player - A Compendium of the Game by Henry Chadwick. This extremely rare book is in overall fine condition in a plain buckram binding. The front cover is detached. On the flyleaf is inscribed President of the Excelsior Base Ball Club Brooklyn. The volume contains a sample club constitution; the 1858 Massachusetts rules of the game; and a diagram of the field with ninety feet bases, forty feet between the mound and the plate and the "short field" (shortstop) position.
In 1860 the first publicly available baseball guide was Beadle's Dime Baseball Player - A Compendium of the Game by Henry Chadwick. This extremely rare book is in overall fine condition in a plain buckram binding. The front cover is detached. On the flyleaf is inscribed President of the Excelsior Base Ball Club Brooklyn. The volume contains a sample club constitution; the 1858 Massachusetts rules of the game; and a diagram of the field with ninety feet bases, forty feet between the mound and the plate and the "short field" (shortstop) position.