"The Steele Box" - 1880's / 1890's Baseball

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$100 payment for securing baseball grounds.

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This booklet/schedule is for the National League and American Association Professional Baseball Leagues. It is about 80 pages long and looks like it's made to fit into your pocket (2.5"x4.25"). In it there is there are the games, dates and teams listed for 1893. There are also factoids on various pages as you can see in the images that have posted. There seems to be a lot packed into the small booklet.

[ooo-ribay]

You have a treasure trove on your hands, Mark! It fascinates me and I’m not even “into” 19th century baseball.

[doug.goodman]

Some amazing stuff, that's for sure

[71buc]

Awesome stuff congratulations and thanks for sharing!

[Scott Garner]

Awesome collection, Mark!

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Here's a local baseball club from Washington, NJ. It's interesting that the teams played form money back then, even the local teams.

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Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Awesome collection, Mark!

The feedback is great today, glad to see the folks here are interested in this. It makes it worth the effort.

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Originally Posted by 71buc

Awesome stuff congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Thank you and you're welcome!

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Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Some amazing stuff, that's for sure

I am glad to see folks are enjoying it. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

You have a treasure trove on your hands, Mark! It fascinates me and I’m not even “into” 19th century baseball.

I'm glad you are enjoying it. I keep finding bits and pieces of information in the box that I didn't even realize I had. I just posted a postal card and it shows the name Esterbrook on it. I looked and if its the same John "Dude" Esterbrook then that means there is a small connection back to the NY Giants.

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Washington, NJ
Morristown, NJ
Boonton, NJ

[bgar3]

I think it probably does refer to Esterbrook. Still all very interesting.

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Originally Posted by bgar3

I think it probably does refer to Esterbrook. Still all very interesting.

Just knowing that the guy who wrote the card trained directly under Esterbrook is good with me. I would NEVER have had picked up on that unless I found this site. The details even in a postal card are pretty neat to find. Today's a good day. Thank you bgar3!