Scorebooks in the key of life
As the other gentleman said score books are simply not commercial unless it is really something special from someone important or from really important events. Also things that are pre 1880s are quite good but the books they are in are more important many times than the scoring itself unless again it qualifies for importance by the scorer and event. The Henry Chadwick scoring material scoring material I have seen were fake so be careful of those. There are Harry Wright scorebooks that have been floating around for years. Originally these were true Grail items but over time they have become less interesting. Most of the reason there is that they were sadly broken up to sell to autograph collectors for the "HW" scorer initials on each game. It also made them more commercial as most people would rather pay 800-1200$ for one game versus a whole book. In turn the prices of these have really come down so you can get them for half what they were 20-30 years ago when they first came out. That's amazing when you compare them to the rise in value for similar things. The buy of those was interesting. It came from a shut in old timer who was a hoarder in a house wher you could not move. There was a group of like 4 or 5 of the most important 19th century collectors who went in on them together so each could get one which would never happen today. The slightly nefarious lead guy ended up screwing the rest of them by keeping one of the scorebooks that he never told the others about. They of course found out pretty soon after. You can hide a lot of things but not a Harry wright scorebook.
I digress. I have had several scorebooks like the one you have. It is a nice one with the name custom printed. Good detail to the scoring, this guy was a pro. But he's not a huge name and the event is cool but the were a lot of World Series and there will be a lot more. Yankees and Brooklyn are always good but there were a lot of them relatively so we are spoiled. 1953 is great but doesn't stand out like 55, 47 and Jackie or specifically the Larsen perfect game. It's good but just not great. A cool thing to own but not commercial. Probably 2-300$ at auction. You should sell it to the guy who wouldn't be surprised at 20k.
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