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EXTREMELY SCARCE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE RULES OF BASEBALL
CARVER, Robin. The Book of Sports. Boston, 1834. First edition of this fascinating rule book of popular children’s games, illustrated with numerous in-text wood-engravings and containing the first description of how to play baseball, with the first picture to show a baseball game in progress. $8800.
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SIGNED BY BABE RUTH
RUTH, Babe. Photograph signed. Bath, Maine, 1933. Vintage black-and-white photographic print of Babe Ruth and his wife Claire, boldly signed “Babe Ruth & Mommie,” a wonderful image of the couple together on a hunting trip to Maine in 1933, the year Ruth hit a home run in the first All-Star game to win it for the American League. $8000.
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BOLDLY SIGNED BY BABE RUTH
RUTH, Babe. Photograph signed. Bath, Maine, 1933. Vintage 8-by-10 black-and-white photographic print picturing Babe Ruth, his wife Claire, and three friends on a November 1933 Maine hunting trip, boldly signed “Babe Ruth” by him below his image, alongside the signed “Claire Ruth, Nov 30—1933,” this scarce photograph taken the same year Ruth hit a home run in the first All-Star game to win it for the American League. $7000.
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BOLDLY SIGNED BY BABE RUTH
RUTH, Babe. Photograph signed. Maine, 1933. Vintage black-and-white photographic print picturing Babe Ruth and friends on a November 1933 Maine hunting trip, boldly signed “Babe Ruth” by him below his image, this photograph taken the same year Ruth hit a home run in the first All-Star game to win it for the American League. $6000.
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1935 YEAR BOOK FROM TED WILLIAMS’ HIGH SCHOOL, SIGNED
(WILLIAMS, Ted). Dias Cardinales: Hoover Senior High School Year Book. San Diego, 1935. Original copy of the 1935 Hoover High yearbook, boldly signed later by Ted Williams on the team picture. $4800.
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“THE MOST UNUSUAL AND REMARKABLE A CHARACTER AS THE WORLD OF BASEBALL EVER PRODUCED”
BERG, Moe. Manuscript notes on the Russian language. Boston, 1935. Nine leaves. Original autograph notes by major league baseball player and OSS spy, “Moe” Berg, on the Cyrillic alphabet, presumably in preparation for his Russian mission in 1935. $4500.
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“A LITTLE GEM OF A BOOK!”
GROSS, Milton. Yankee Doodles. Boston, 1948. First edition of this “important contribution… to the understanding of the workings of a ball player’s mind,” signed on the verso of the last page by 23 championship Yankees, including Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Joe Page, Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio, with a foreword by Yankees manager Bucky Harris (who unbelievably was fired the following year, after falling just a game short of winning the pennant). $4500.
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FIRST EDITION OF ATHLETIC SPORTS, WITH OVER 400 PAGES ON BASEBALL
PALMER, Harry Clay, et al. Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia. Philadelphia, 1889. First edition of this comprehensive survey of the sports of England, Australia and America, richly illustrated with four chromolithographic plates, 39 photographic plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. $3500.
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“BUT THERE IS NO JOY IN MUDVILLE—MIGHTY CASEY HAS STRUCK OUT”
THAYER, Ernest. Casey at the Bat IN: A Treasury of Humorous Poetry. Boston, 1902. First edition, first state of this anthology of humorous poetry, containing the first book publication of “Casey at the Bat,” with numerous full-page illustrations. $3000.
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INSCRIBED BY “THE BEST CATCHER IN THE BUSINESS”
CAMPANELLA, Roy. Publicity illustration inscribed. No place, no date. Original printed publicity illustration of Campanella from his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers, inscribed: “Best Wishes to Joe. Roy Campanella.” $2800.
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