Publications: 19th Century Baseball

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Posted By: runscott 

Looking for opinions on 19th century baseball reference material. I refer to the following regularly:

"Nineteenth Century Stars" - SABR. This is a great large-format paperback which includes stats/photos/extensive bios, for 19th cent. stars not in the HOF. This is a good place to find player stats prior to 1870, for 136 star players. Amazing effort.

"Nineteenth Century Baseball" - Marshall Wright,350 pp. Hardback,1996, year-by-year stats for all ML Teams, 1871-1900. Extensive team AND player stats, good stories.

"Baseball 1845-1881" - Preston Orem, 1961, 359 pp. Fabulous book, based on newspaper accounts, lots of pictures and great stories. Contains standings, but not stats.

I would like a book that contains team AND player stats, for years up to 1870, especially the major teams from 1868-1870. I realize that there was a plethora of teams during those years, stats were scanty and undependable. But any data available would be great. In fact, if anyone has suggestions as to how to begin, I don't mind doing some of the research.