Spalding & Reach Guides

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Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Several years the late John Spalding did a wonderful checklist of Spalding Football Guides (some years there were three different editions). John also did a checklist of the Spalding instructional series which ran for decades and is huge!

I have never looked that closely at the instructional books listed inside the front cover, so had assumed they were all from 1900 on, and so was happy to recently obtain an 1885 copy of 'How to Field'. All the instructions are from a gloveless major leaguer perspective, position by position. Fascinating read.