Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Schlichter, H. Walter.

Description

1. [2], 5-128 p. : ill., ports.; 15 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative title

1. Sol. White's official baseball guide
2. History of colored base ball
3. History of colored baseball

Subject

1. African American baseball players -- Biography
2. African American baseball players -- Portraits
3. African American baseball players -- History
4. Baseball teams -- United States -- History
5. Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
6. Negro leagues -- History

Genre/Form

1. Ink stamps (Provenance)
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. Preface -- Sol. White -- Colored baseball -- Championship contests -- Notable feats of colored pitchers -- Colored base ball as a profession -- Managers troubles -- The color line -- Old timers compared -- The cubans -- How to pitch / by Andrew Foster -- Art and science of hitting / by Grant (Home Run) Johnson -- Casey at the bat! -- When Casey slugged the bat -- Colored players and the league.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 797-W (White, S. Sol. White's official baseball guide)

Note

1. In printed paper wrappers, with a portrait of the author on the recto of the upper wrapper, and an advertisement for A.G. Spalding & Bros. on the verso.
2. "Copyright, 1907 by H. Walter Schlichter."--verso of title page.
3. Advertisements throughout.

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. White, Sol, 1868-

Title

1. Sol. White's official base ball guide / by Sol White, captain, Philadelphia Giants, champions 1905-1906-1907 ; edited by H. Walter Schlichter.

Imprint

1. Philadelphia, Pa. : [s.n., 1907]

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 797-W (accession no. B527235/B767474) inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Schlichter, H. Walter.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Cover title

1. History of colored base ball

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 797-W (White, S. Sol. White's official baseball guide)