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Posted By: barrysloate

Well Clint, you got me on that one. I made up cookbook off the top of my head, and sure enough there's a cookbook with baseball content. You learn something new every day.

David Block's book has the best bibliography for pre-1860 books ever compiled, but many of the early books depict bat and ball games similar to baseball, but not baseball.

I had a copy or two of Uncle Nat and it does have some very nice baseball content. As I recall the boys are arguing over whether to use the NY or Massachusetts rules when they play.

And yes, the Life magazine from 1962 with Burton and Taylor is great if nobody pulled out the post cereal card; and I've had that Gentry magazine with the oversized T205 Cobb, but that's a tough piece to locate. Not likely to show up at a flea market.