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Title: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
Author: Edited by Henry Chadwick
Release Date: February, 2006 [EBook #9916]
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S BASEBALL GUIDE, 1895 ***
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[Title page]
[Illustration:
SPALDING'S
SPECIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY
BASE BALL
GUIDE
1895]
[Advertisement]
The Leader for 1895
is
The Spalding Bicycle.
ITS NAME IS ITS GUARANTEE.
_The name stands for the Highest Grade in Athletic Goods throughout the
world, and now stands for THE HIGHEST-GRADE BICYCLE MADE._
THE SPALDING BICYCLE ...
DURING THE YEAR 1894 MADE A PHENOMENAL RECORD
A. H. Barnett on the Spalding Bicycle won the Great Irvington-Milburn
Road Race ... Monte Scott, of the Crescent Wheelman, on the Spalding
Bicycle made new world's road records for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 miles,
and ... Fred Titus at Springfield, on September 13th rode 27 miles, 1489
yards in one hour, making a world's record, and making records from 7 to
27 miles.
Watch the Spalding Team for '95--SANGER-TITUS-CABANNE.
A.G. SPALDING & BROS.
NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA
*AT CHICOPEE
[Illustration: Albert G. Spalding.]
BASE BALL GUIDE
AND
OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK FOR 1895.
* * * * *
A Complete Hand Book Of The National Game
Of Base Ball,
Containing The
Full Official League Records
For 1894,
Together With
The New Code Of Playing Rules As Revised By The
Committee Of Rules.
Attached To Which Are Explanatory Notes, Giving A
Correct Interpretation Of The New Rules.
* * * * *
A Prominent Feature Of The
Guide For 1895
Is The New Championship Record; Added To Which Are
The Complete Pitching Records Of 1894 And
Special Chapters On The
Fielding And Base Running
Of 1894,
Together With
Interesting Records Of The Most Noteworthy Contests, Incidents
And Occurrences Of The Eventful Season Of 1894, Occurring
In The College Arenas As Well As In
That Of The Professional Clubs.
* * * * *
Edited By
Henry Chadwick.
Published By
American Sports Publishing Company,
241 Broadway, New York
PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
The official handbook of America's national game--SPALDING'S BASE BALL
GUIDE--which was first issued in 1876, has grown in size, importance and
popular favor year by year, until it has become the great standard
statistical and reference annual of the game throughout the base ball
world; and it is now recognized as the established base ball manual of
the entire professional fraternity, as well as the authorized _Guide
Book_ of the great National League, which is the controlling
governmental organization of the professional clubs of the United
States.
The _Guide_ of 1895 not only records the doings of the twelve clubs of
the National League for the past season, with all the official
statistics, but it gives space to the championship campaigns of 1894,
not only of the Minor Professional Leagues of the country, but also of
those of the College clubs and of the leading organizations of the
amateur class--the majority class of the entire base ball world--and in
this respect the _Guide_ has no equal, the book of 1895 being
exceptionally full of the most interesting chapters of the leading
events of the diamond fields of the past year, and for the first time
contains many fine half-tone illustrations of all the leading clubs and
players, making it the largest and most complete Guide ever issued.
Copies of the _Guide_ will be mailed to any address upon receipt of
twelve cents each. Trade orders supplied through the News Companies, or
direct from the Publishers,
American Sports Publishing Company,
241 Broadway, New York.
The _Guide_, as hitherto, is issued under the entire editorial control
of the veteran writer on sports, Mr. Henry Chadwick, popularly known as
"The Father of Base Ball."
The great size of the _Guide_ precludes the possibility of including the
game record of the League campaign, as also other records of League
legislation, etc., and these will be found in the "Official League
Book," which contains only official League matter, as furnished by
Secretary Young, including the League Constitution in full.
PREFACE.
SPALDING'S BASE BALL GUIDE for 1895 is the twentieth annual edition of
the work issued under the auspices of the National League. It is also
the fifteenth annual edition published under the editorship of Mr. Henry
Chadwick, he having first entered upon his editorial duties on the GUIDE
in 1881. Moreover, it is the fourth annual edition issued under the
government of the existing major League, which League was the result of
the reconstruction measures adopted during the winter of 1891-92; and
this latest issue of SPALDING'S LEAGUE GUIDE in several respects, if not
in all, surpasses all of its predecessors. New features are presented
in its pages this year which are of special interest; the most
noteworthy being the new record of every game played in the League
championship series---won, lost or drawn---from April 19 to September
30, 1894, inclusive; the names of the opposing pitchers in each game;
being a record never before published in any base ball manual, this
alone making the GUIDE of 1895 a model book of reference for the whole
base ball fraternity. Added to this are not only the full statistics of
the League season of 1894, but also special articles on the latest
scientific points of play developed in the professional arena; together
with editorial comments on the leading events of the past season---now
regarded as one of the interesting features of the book---and the scores
of the model games of 1894, etc. A new chapter is "The Reference Guide,"
devoted to statistics valuable as references. In addition to which is
the new code of rules which went into effect in April, 1895, and the
editorial explanatory appendix, revised by President Young of the
League; the whole making the GUIDE the model base ball manual of the
period, the book being of special value, alike to the amateur class of
the base ball fraternity, as to the class of professional exemplars of
the game.
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