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Posted By: Max Weder
Picked this up on ebay |
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Posted By: Max Weder
Have had this for a while |
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Posted By: Aaron M.
Max, great pick-up. I've always liked the cover graphics on that booklet. You also got an enormous bargain (I think an instance of a seller not properly listing his item as a program). I've seen it sell for over $1,000 on major auction sites in the past. Great job! |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Great pickup Max....I think Clint may be looking for one of those World Tour booklets. They made a stop in a small town in Kansas where I believe the ballpark still stands today with a sign memorializing the game. I've seen a few of those available just in the past 3-4 months (two on ebay and one in a Hunt's auction). I did not however see the one you picked up. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Dan- I assume you have a copy of Palmer's Athletic Sports in America. Definitive book on the 1888 tour. |
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Posted By: Max Weder
Palmer also wrote another book on the 1888 Tour. It's called: "Sights Around The World with the Base Ball Boys: Most Interesting Sketches of the Famous Sights of the World as They Were Seen By The Gay Travelers on the "Round The World" Tour of American BaseBall Players". I believe much of the text is reprinted from his 1888 book, and there are no beautiful colour photos. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Max- in the back of the 1889 Spalding Guide there is an ad for "Athletic Sports", with the plain cover version offered for $3.50 and the Morocco cover for $5.00. That is an enormous amount of money for that era, when the Guide itself could be purchased for a dime. It's clear the book was aimed at the wealthy, and it may explain why so many survived. Who would throw out such an expensive book? |
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Posted By: Max Weder
Here are images of Athletic Sports |
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Posted By: Max Weder
Barry |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Thanks for the images. So the salesman's sample used the fancy cover but was much thinner. Never saw one of those. |
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Posted By: George Dreher
Barry, I know an elderly woman who works 40 hrs per week at the local KMart and she brings home less than $228 per week after taxes and other mandatory payroll deductions. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
That is very sad indeed...and for every worker who takes home $200 a week, there's another hedge fund manager making a billion a year! |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Mr. Dorskind has just emailed to inform me that only two hedge fund managers are purported to be making a billion dollars a year. So I need to revise my post. |
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Posted By: Max Weder
Here's another world tour piece, this one by Ring Lardner. It has a suede-like cover |
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Posted By: Rob D.
Thanks for getting the thread back on track, Max. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Yes, sorry for that digression. |
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Posted By: Max Weder
I'm still looking for Zanzibar, Barry |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Max- I know that is a comic reference to something, but unfortunately it went over my head. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I do not have Palmer's book Barry...Do you have one? I'm wondering if there is even any mention of the two games played in Nebraska? In the one game played in a small town in central Nebraska the grandstands collapsed. |
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Posted By: Max Weder
I'm not that funny Barry. I only managed to watch one season of Seinfeld before it drove me into nothingness (and not watching it) |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Okay, I didn't know Zanzibar was his first work. Thank you. |
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Posted By: Clint
A little town in my home state secured a spot on the 1913-1914 World Tour. It, in my opinion was the greatest game ever played in Kansas. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Great stuff Clint! I've been through Blue Rapids many times driving right past that ballpark. |
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Posted By: Clint
Dan, you had to put up guarantee money to secure your spot. The newspaper accounts tell how much it was. I can't remember how much now. Blue Rapids had some investors who went together to get the game. The teams had a choice of either taking a percentage of the profits or a lump sum. This game they took the percentage. |
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Posted By: Clint
Dan, I found my other information. You had to put up a $1000 dollar guarantee to get a spot on the tour. The teams then had the choice of either taking the $1000 or 80% of the gate. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Blue Rapids should consider doing a re-enactment of the game in 5 years for the 100th anniversary. I'd drive down there for that. |
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Posted By: Clint
Dan, check this site out. It would be cool to see a re-enactment of the game. I'd go too. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I'll bet that wasn't cheap. I would give my left ... to go on a world baseball tour like that. |
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Posted By: Max Weder
There is a recent book published on the tour |
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