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Originally Posted by Forever Young
So was the purpose then, to recap the previous year?
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I believe so, yes. To quote Mr. Spalding, his guide was intended to be an "authoritative chronicle of base ball," meant to appeal to statisticians and historians of the sport.
There is a good overview of base ball guides on the SABR website:
http://research.sabr.org/journals/ba...-guides-galore