What's your oldest baseball related item?

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Posted By: Jason

Below are a few of my earlier items. If anyone wants any of the scans please let me know!

1802 Youthful Recreations. Philadelphia J. Johnson (Trap Ball Woodcut)

1810c Childs Sports Book Youthful Sports For Mahlon Day, NY With Trap & Football Woodcuts After the 1802 Youthful Recreations Philadelphia J. Johnson book

1831 Baseball Writing Book Writing Book: Oxford NY, For George Hunt by Chapman & Flagler (Ball Woodcut)

1835 Childs Sports Book THE LITTLE KEEPSAKE or Easy Lessons, in Words of One Syllable (Early ball game woodcut)

1839c Childs Sports Book Village Green or Sports of Youth (Base Ball game woodcut)

1840 Babcock The Flock of Sheep; or Familiar Explanations of Simple Facts – Game of Ball woodcut on Title Pg

1849 Juvenile Pastimes; or Girls' and Boys' Book of Sports (baseball game woodcut)

1853c 3 Child Dag With One Holding A Ball (possibly baseball?)

1855 – 1859 Several Newspapers with box scores

1856 Early Reference To Baseball Book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Hard Cover. Very Fine. Ex-Library. History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford.1621 (Christmas Day) Governor Bradford finds the men of Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, “frolicking in ye street, at play openly; some at pitching ye ball, some at stoole ball and shuch-like sport.” (Of Plimouth Plantation, Memoirs of William Bradford, 1620-1647, first published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1856.)

1858 Little Charley's Games and Sports Book (base ball woodcut + info)

1864 THE AMERICAN BOY'S BOOK OF SPORTS OF GAMES (several BB game woodcuts + rules & info)

1861c Baseball Tintype of W.T. Lee of Aberdeen Maryland Holding Bat

1862c Brady CDV of Doubleday

1861-3 CDV of Unknown Potsdam NY BB CDV

1862c CDV Conrad Meyer of the Northside Greys by J.H. Meyer of Cinci Ohio

1862-66 CDV 3 Men In Star Cap Uniforms with Bats and Ball. Possibly Central City Team From Syracuse NY. Man on Right ID’s as David H Sanders.

1863c CDV Baseball Illustrated

1864c CDV Hanover NH BBC

1864c CDV Doubleday

1866 CDV Currier & Ives National Game Baseball Game Scene. Baltimore Baseball Emporium AD Ad back

1864 CDV Boy With Baseball Providence RI

1865c CDV Man Standing Posed With FD Written On Bat

1866c Baseball Sheet Music Lowell Base Ball Club of Boston, MA

1867 Invitation Lincoln Base Ball Club Ball Invitation

1867 Beadle’s Base Ball Guide

1868 Invitation Geary BBC Phili Ball Invitation

1868 –1871 20 or so Oliver Optics

1870c CDV 2 Lowell Players with Ball By The Renowned Warren of Boston

1871 Stratford BBC Imperial Cabinet with Jim Orator O'Rourke Rookie

1871 Imperial Cabinet Nameless BBC(actual name), Gerard, Erie County, PA

1871c Tintype J Bib Player

1871 & 1873 Dewitt’s Base Ball Guides

1873c Colour Baseball CDV Unknown MA Playerhttp://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1103709365.JPG