Our National Game 1880s Scrapbook

[4scuda]

I just picked up this Our National Game scrapbook off of ebay. It is the second one I own. The first one has a much better cover than this, but this one had better lithographs. Both have the lithographs loose in the binder. Does anyone know how many blank pages there were and if it is possible to bind the book back together with replacement pages?

[4scuda]

Now that I look at my original copy I don't think that the new one is in any better condition except for foul ball. I guess I'll have some trade stock. I would still like to know how many pages an intact version has. I am assuming some pages were blank.

[4scuda]

the rest

[WillowGrove]

the rest

4scuda - I think you got them all. I finally sold the one I owned for about 30 years about 3 months ago and I checked my photos. I have....

Our National Game
Wild Pitch
Fly Ball
Caught Between Bases
Foul ball
Home Run

hope this helps

peter

[1880nonsports]

albums and there was blank paper between the prints on one of them - some with "ghosting" from laying on the inked images over time - can't remember much more than that (or if pants on before going out). I framed a set - although very inexpensively and the laminating on the outside of two of the frames is peeling :-) With no wall space and no desire to properly reframe - they're languishing on the floor in a corner of my room. They were hanging in my hallway but after 10+ years they were displaced by more recent interests. I bought it without the covers from Ron Vitro in my only negotiation where I had to RAISE my offer above his asking price as he became "reluctant" to sell them. I'll see if my friend still has his as I remember the prints were still attached in the album with cover. Barring that someone here must have a complete album.
Although there would be a few contrary opinions - the condition the book is typically found in and the visual qualities of the litho's - render them most often encountered and sold by themselves as a practical matter - and people in general gravitate to something that can be displayed as opposed to owning what amounts to a "book". I think the minority (by numbers not their significance) appreciate the medium and the form of books - even those graphic in nature as opposed to print.

edited to add: yes, there are only the six pages and ? number of blank pages. What I found interesting was in the ones I've seen that have blank pages - they weren't utilized. I find that kind of facinating as use was not only the intent - but kids whether contemporaneously or now - like to draw, paint, glue, cut, and whatever on any blank paper they encounter. Teens and adults liked to glue trade cards, die-cuts, newspaper items, genealogies, and more into albums.

[Bob Sellars]

I have the album and it contains the following:

Our National Game Cover
Our National Game litho and two blank pages
Wild Pitch litho and two blank pages
Fly Ball litho and two blank pages
Caught Between Bases litho and two blank pages
Four Balls litho and two blank pages
Home Run litho and four blank pages
Back cover

Two pages does not mean one page with an obverse and revers side. Each of the blank pages is two-sided. I think my album is complete. It's possible but unlikely that one or more blank pages were removed.

Regards, Bob Sellars

[1880nonsports]

thanks Bob although don't know what I'll ever do with the info if I'm lucky enough to remember it. Of course the same thing applies to my marriage vows.

edited to add - anything at all on the blank pages? That kind of stuff I remember and find useful as well.........

[4scuda]

got the one from ebay in today. It had caught between the bases which I didn't have before. The pictures are of the leftover I need to sell or trade. The recent ones from ebay purchase are darker than my original set probably because they have trade cards glued to the backs. I guess that is what the book was for ,so can't complain. I have home run as well but didn't get a picture.