The national game
By: Alfred H. Spink ; with a foreword by Steven P. Gietschier.
Series: Writing baseball
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Spink provides a history of baseball before 1910; position-by-position biographies of former players and of every major league player of that era; sketches of managers, magnates, journalists, and umpires; the lineup of every championship team from 1871 to 1910 World Series."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mo. : National Game Pub. Co., 1911.
Includes indexes.