Sam
5) Baseball Individual Play and Team Play in Detail by Clarke and Dawson 1915
6) Playing The Game From Mine Boy to Manager Stanley Harris 1925
5. This book is very very common without dust jacket. Most instructionals, even early ones, have very limited demand. A $10 book. Even with a dust jacket, it would sell for under $50,
6. This is the Stokes first edition. Hard to find in a dust jacket. Quite collectible, but most book collectors (of which there seem to be far fewer now) have a copy (as they do with other great books like Richter). It should be a $200+ book, and perhaps more if you can find two collectors to fight it out.
Book prices generally are lower now than in the 1990s. The internet has shown that some books (e.g. Putnam team series) are much more available, leading to a drop. With fewer collectors, this also leads to price drops. Some truly rare titles have gone up in value.
That said, prices can swing wildly, depending on the auction venue, the bidders and other factors.
Max
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