Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides

The Library of Congress, apparently feeling the baseball groove as we go through April, has announced the release of "Spalding Base Ball Guides 1889-1939." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/ . This collection reproduces 35 of the Spalding Official Base Ball Guides and Official Indoor Base Ball Guides.

As always you may search by keyword or browse by title. Since the title browsing just brings you to entire guides, I found the keyword search more useful. (Browsing guides can be kind of interesting though; information available in the guides includes analysis and standings from the previous season, pictures of ball fields, statistics, photographs of people important to the game, etc.)

A full-text search for Ty Cobb found 15 results. With your results you can view the page text or the page image. I recommend you look at the page text first -- the images can be a little hard to read in the non-archival sizes. Search results also offer bibliographic information and a table of contents for the cited guide.

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