Help with baseball books

[sam majors]

I listed 2 more books in my first post at the top. So far Net.54 members have provided a ton of information! Thanks, Sam

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Sam

5) Baseball Individual Play and Team Play in Detail by Clarke and Dawson 1915

6) Playing The Game From Mine Boy to Manager Stanley Harris 1925


5. This book is very very common without dust jacket. Most instructionals, even early ones, have very limited demand. A $10 book. Even with a dust jacket, it would sell for under $50,

6. This is the Stokes first edition. Hard to find in a dust jacket. Quite collectible, but most book collectors (of which there seem to be far fewer now) have a copy (as they do with other great books like Richter). It should be a $200+ book, and perhaps more if you can find two collectors to fight it out.

Book prices generally are lower now than in the 1990s. The internet has shown that some books (e.g. Putnam team series) are much more available, leading to a drop. With fewer collectors, this also leads to price drops. Some truly rare titles have gone up in value.

That said, prices can swing wildly, depending on the auction venue, the bidders and other factors.

Max

[bgar3]

Playing the game is a first, I believe, although there is a Grosset and Dunlap reprint I think it is a different dust jacket. Again, the dust jacket is pretty scarce and makes the book better, 200 and up full retail.
The Clarke and Dawson is a first, there were many other editions. Not as collected as history books, but still interesting. There is a dust jacket which seems to be missing, still can be found for about 20 dollars and up. I think Clarke was Moe Berg's coach at Princeton. This was the first in a series of books with this title, subsequent editions authored by Coombs, Littweiler and probably others, with expected changes in strategy etc.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by bgar3

The Clarke and Dawson is a first, there were many other editions. Not as collected as history books, but still interesting. There is a dust jacket which seems to be missing, still can be found for about 20 dollars and up. I think Clarke was Moe Berg's coach at Princeton. This was the first in a series of books with this title, subsequent editions authored by Coombs, Littweiler and probably others, with expected changes in strategy etc.

Bruce

I have with dust jackets the series of these which dealt with a number of sports. The Ice Hockey title seems to be the hardest to find in dust jacket, and commends more attention and a higher price, simply because of the lack of early hockey titles.

[bgar3]

Max, very nice. Also nice to hear from you. I was answering only as a fill in for you. Almost started a book related thread to see if anyone was still around.

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Bruce

Don't know if you're on Facebook, but Tom Zocco and I administer the Baseball Book Group there with about 6000 members. It's fairly active and civil, and is clearly focused on modern books, and (gasp) people reading these books; however, there are a number of older book postings from time to time.

Max

[bgar3]

Thanks Max, I will check it out, I think my post crossed yours in response to to the op, sorry.