Noah Brooks' Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship (1884) is the first novel devoted entirely to baseball and an excellent example of local colour fiction popular during the time. Throughout the story, intense town rivalry forces the Catalpa, Illinois, community and its ball club to confront game-throwing players and to enter the debate about amateur versus professional teams. In his introduction to the book, Al Spalding champions Brooks' vivid portrayal of the ups and downs, the trials and the triumphs of a ...
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Noah Brooks' Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship (1884) is the first novel devoted entirely to baseball and an excellent example of local colour fiction popular during the time. Throughout the story, intense town rivalry forces the Catalpa, Illinois, community and its ball club to confront game-throwing players and to enter the debate about amateur versus professional teams. In his introduction to the book, Al Spalding champions Brooks' vivid portrayal of the ups and downs, the trials and the triumphs of a base ball club, concluding that while nothing is really needed to popularize the game, I am sure the story will commend itself to every lover of pure and wholesome literature. Volume editors Trey Strecker and Geralyn Strecker provide a publication history, an analysis of the text and background on baseball in the late 1800s. An appendix includes the two baseball chapters from Brooks' earlier novel The Fairport Nine.
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Add this copy of Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship to cart. $295.00, good condition, Sold by Bradley Ross Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Auburn, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by E. P. Dutton.
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Very good- Book First edition Dutton 1884. Very good minus blue cloth hardcover decorated in black and gilt. Spine ends frayed, some sunning to spine, wear to corners. Binding square and firm. General soiling to rear cover. This was the first novel written entirely about baseball.
Add this copy of Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship to cart. $300.00, good condition, Sold by Austin Book Shop LLC rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Richmond Hill, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by Dutton.
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Good. First baseball novel ever published. Intro by A.G. Spalding. 202pp. Wear to cover edges and backstrip. Paper roughly removed from front inside cover.
Add this copy of Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship to cart. $450.00, good condition, Sold by Bradley Ross Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Auburn, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by E. P. Dutton.
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Good. Book First edition, Dutton 1884. Preferred and scarce color lithograph pictorial binding showing a baseball scene on the front and the ball club on the rear cover. Good hardcover, hinges sound, binding tight. Wear and flaking to extremities, loss of paper to approximately 1" of spine, scattered foxing. First novel completely about baseball. Introduction by A. G. Spalding. Cornerstone of any baseball fiction collection.
Add this copy of Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship to cart. $535.00, very good condition, Sold by Bradley Ross Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Auburn, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by E. P. Dutton.
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Very Good. Book First edition, Dutton 1884. Preferred and scarce color lithograph pictorial binding showing a baseball scene on the front and the ball club on the rear cover. Very Good hardcover. Binding square and firm. Wear and flaking to extremities, wear to corners. First novel completely about baseball. Introduction by A. G. Spalding. Cornerstone of any baseball fiction collection.
Add this copy of Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship to cart. $1,850.00, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by E. P. Dutton and Company.
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1884, E. P. Dutton and Company
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Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
E. P. Dutton and Company
Published:
1884
Language:
English
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With an Introduction by Al. G. Spalding. Bookplate; boards rubbed at edges, corners and joints; very attractive. 202 [1, baseball ad] pp. Illustrated. 8vo, Signed and inscribed "with affectionate regards" by Noah Brooks on the front free endpaper, New York, May 30, 1884.
