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Spalding Grey Matter
2005-01-13 00:29
by Mike Carminati

The Library of Congress has a number of the old Spalding Base Ball Guides online.

Here's the index. They are required reading for all baseball fans.

Here's a great page that lists the "Chicago" games (i.e., shutouts) and extra-inning games for the NL in 1888:

Check out the batting ratios listed. They include the original "batting average", runs per game, from the old National Association of Base Ball Players days (1857-70):

The collection also has a set of indoor baseball guides, which I've never seen before. Check out the indoor fields:

And indoor bats:

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