Early Baseball dust jackets
 

Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>I'm looking to confirm the existence (or not) of certain early baseball dust jackets, both fiction and non-fiction.<BR><BR>Here's a list of titles I haven't seen in 18 years of baseball book collecting, either in auction or catalogue listings, as well as searching for ads in proquest and other magazine holdings. <BR><BR>Mathewson, Pitching in the Pinch, Putnam 1912 (later edition Putnam dj has been seen, Robert Edwards offered Putnam 1st with Grosset reprint dust jacket I believe)<BR>Mathewson, Won in the Ninth<BR>Chance, The Bride and the Pennant<BR>Anson, A Ball Player's Career<BR>Ellard, Base Ball in Cincinatti<BR>Spalding, America's National Game<BR>Spink, The National Game<BR>Braathen, Ty Cobb Idol of the Baseball Fandom<BR>Richter, Richter's History and Records of Base Ball<BR>Roff, Base Ball and Base Ball Players<BR>Thouey, Boston Base Ball Club 1871-1897<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Max

Early Baseball dust jackets
 

Posted By: <b>barry sloate</b><p>Hi Max,<BR> The Mathewson books have first edition dust jackets, I know a collector who has them all. I'm not familair with the Chance book; all the others you listed were not issued with dust jackets. Barry Sloate

Early Baseball dust jackets
 

Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Thanks Barry. It's obviously easier to confirm what has a dust jacket (by personal observation) than what was issued without. I have had numerous collectors swear up and down that a certain book doesn't have a dj, but of course all they're saying is they haven't seen it in 15 or thirty years of collecting. <BR><BR>I strongly suspect you're right on the other books, but have you been able to confirm these absences through original catalogue descriptions or advertisments? <BR><BR>As for The Bride and the Pennant, I believe it was the first ghost written baseball novel. I still haven't had the courage to read it, but I'll bet Frank ends up with both the girl and the pennant. The book also provides a glossary of the pseudonyms it uses, in case the reader is completely baseball illiterate.<BR><BR>I've always assumed it had a dust jacket, but the book is rare enough (i.e. it's only shown up on ebay twice in the last seven years) in hard cover that I'm not sure many (or any) of the dust jackets survived. <BR><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Max<BR><BR>