PBall's Bibliography

Note: For a chronological version, go here.

Updated December 2008

The Protoball Bibliography

Note: Items marked with an asterisk are not held by Protoball.

For unmarked titles, Protoball will consult texts for researchers upon request.

Adams*, D. L., et al., (1854). The New York Baseball Rules. The Book of American Pastimes. New York: 346-348.

Adelman, M. A. (1986). A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870, University of Illinois Press.

Adelman*, M. A. (1980). "The First Baseball Game, the Newspaper References to Baseball, and the New York Club." Journal of Sport History 7(Winter): 132-135.

Agen*, M. (1927). Baseball Known in Old World Under Various Names. Baseball. 38: 521.

Alexander, C. (1991). Our Game: An American Baseball History, Henry Holt.

Allen*, L. (1950). 100 Years of Baseball: the Intimate and Dramatic Story of Modern Baseball From the Game's Beginnings Up to the Present Day. New York, Bartholomew House.

Altham, H. S., and E. W. Swanton (1948). A History of Cricket, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

Altherr, T. L. (2008). "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games." Base Ball 2(1): 29-43.

Altherr, T. L. (2000). "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic." Nine 8(2): 15-49.

Alvarez, M. (1990). The Old Ball Game, Redefinition.

Anderson, W. (1992). Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine? Portland, ME, Will Anderson.

Anon* (1926). The Origin of Baseball. Youth's Companion. 100: 686.

Anon. (1984). Cricket: History of the Game, Equipment, . . . . St. Peters, Australia, Gregory's Publishing Company.

Anon. (1998). From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball, Warwick Publishing.

Anon. (1858). Games for All Seasons. London, James Blackwood.

Anon. (1937). The MCC 1787 - 1937. London, The Times Publishing Company.

Anon. (1881). The National Game. New York Times: 4.

Anon. (1889). Origin of the National Game of Baseball. Mercury Sporting Guide for 1889 Containing the History and Records of Baseball: 1-5.

Anon. (1912). Who Started Baseball? A Word on the Origins of the National Game. Baseball. 8: 71-72.

Anon.* Ball-Player’s Chronicle; also New England Base Ball Players Gazette.

Anon.* (1859). Base Ball -- Who Plays the Genuine Game. New York Tribune.

Anon.* (1887). Base Ball Reminiscences: Part I -- The Evolution of Base Ball. National Daily Base Ball Gazette.

Anon.* (1870). Base-Ball as a Pastime and as a Business. Spirit of the Times. 23: 235.

Anon.* (1884). Baseball: Its Rise and Progress. The New York Clipper Annual, New York Clipper: 29-36.

Anon.* (1869). Base-ball: Review of the Season of ’68, With a Chapter on the Rise, Decline, and Future Prospects of the Game. Spirit of the Times. 19: 359.

Anon.* (1939). A Century of Baseball; 1839-1939.

Anon.* (1887). The Game of Cricket, Sonnenschein.

Anson*, A. C. (1900). A Ball Player’s Career. Chicago, Era -- reprinted by Amereon, 1993.

Arlott, J. a. T., F. (1977). Arlott and Trueman on Cricket. London, British Broadcasting Company.

Astifan, P. (1990). "Baseball in the 19th Century." Rochester History 52(3): 2-23.

Astor*, G. (1988). The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book, Prentice Hall.

Atkinson, F. (1963). "'Knur and Spell' and Allied Games." Folk Life 1: 43-65.

Aunt-Carrie* (1867). Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, Milton Bradley.

Bailey, T. (1978). A History of Cricket. London, Book Club Associates.

Baker, W. J. (1982). Sports in the Western World. Totowa NJ, Rowman and Littlefield.

Barbour*, R. H. (1904). The Book of School and College Sports. New York, D. Appleton and Company.

Barrett*, P. V. (1910). Baseball in the Seventeenth Century. Baseball. 5: 75-76.

Bartlett, A. (1951). Baseball and Mr. Spalding: The History and Romance of Baseball, Farrar, Straus and Young.

Barty-King, H. (1979). Quilt Winders and Pod Shavers; the History of Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacture. London, Macdonald and James.

Bene*, D. D. (1898). Fifty Years Reminiscences of Scottish Cricket. Glasgow.

Benson, M. (1989). Ballparks of North America: 1845 to Present, McFarland.

Betts*, J. R. (1974). America’s Sporting Heritage: 1850-1950, Addison Wesley.

Betts*, J. R. (1971). "Home Front, Battle Field, and Sport During the Civil War." Research Quarterly 42.

Betts*, J. R. (1952). Organized Sport in Industrial America, University of Michigan Dissertation Services.

Birdsall*, R. R. (1925). The Birthplace of Base Ball. The Story of Cooperstown, Charles Scribner’s Sons: 247 – 257.

Birdsall*, R. R. (1917). The True Story of the Origin of Base Ball. The Story of Cooperstown, XXXXX; reprinted in 1938 by R. R. Birdsall: 16.

Birley, D. (1999). A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum Press.

Blaine, D. P. (1840). An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports.

Blancke*, C. (1891). Cricket in America. Harper's Weekly. 35: 725.

Block, D. (2005). Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, University of Nebraska Press.

Block, D. (2008). "A Peek into the Pocket-Book." Base Ball 2(1): 17-28.

Blofield, H. (2001). Cricket and All That; An Irreverent History, Coronet.

Bonner*, M. G. (1930). "The Birth of Baseball." St. Nicholas 57(12): 931-932.

Bouchier, N. B. (2003). Baseball, Boosters, and the Amateur Not-for-Profit Approach to Community Sport. For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, McGill-Queens University Press: 100.

Bouchier, N. B., and R. K. Barney (1988). "A Critical Examination of a Source on Early Ontario Baseball: The Reminiscence of Adam E. Ford." Journal of Sport History 15(1): 75-90.

Bowen, R. (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World, Eyre and Spottiswoode.

Bowman, J. S., and Joel Zoss (2004). Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball, University of Nebraska Press.

Bowman, J. S., and Joel Zoss (1986). The Pictorial History of Baseball. New York, Gallery Books.

Bowman*, J. S., and Brian Turner (2002). The Hurrah Game: Baseball in Northampton, 1823-1953. Northampton, MA, Northampton Museum and Education Center.

Brand, J. (1900). Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: The Origins of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions. London, George Bell and Sons.

Brasch, R. (1970). How Did Sports Begin? A Look at the Origins of Man at Play. New York, David McKay Company.

Brayshaw, I. (1985). The ABC of Cricket: The History, The Laws, a Glossary of Terms. Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Company.

Bready, J. (1998). Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Brewster, P. G. (1947). "Games and Sports in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature." Western Folklore 6(2): 143-156.

Brewster*, P. G. (1953). American Nonsinging Games, University of Oklahoma Press.

Brodribb*, G. (1995 [revision of 1952 edition]). Next Man In: A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs, Souvenir Press.

Brooke, R., and Peter Matthews (1988). Guiness Cricket Firsts, Guiness Books.

Brookes, C. (1978). English Cricket: The Game and its Players Through the Ages, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Burk, R. F. (1994). Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920, University of North Carolina Press.

Burnett, J. (2000). Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland Before 1860. East Linton, Scotland, Tuckwell Press.

Butler, S. H. (1946?). A Concise History of Cricket, Cricket Book Society.

Camp, W. (1889). Base-Ball for the Spectator. The Century. 38: 831-838.

Camp*, W. (1910). The American National Game: Professional and College Base-Ball in the Making. Century. 79: 936-948.

Cardus, N. (1930). Cricket. London, Longmans Green and Co.

Carroll*, J. M. (1989). "The Doubleday Myth and Texas Baseball." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 42: 596-612.

Casey, H. J. (1912). The History of Baseball: The Spectacular Career of America’s Foremost Game. Baseball Magazine. 8: 21 ff.

Casway, J. (1992). "At The Old Ball Game." Temple Review??: 19-24.

Casway, J. (2007). "Octavius Catto and the Pythians of Philadelphia." Pennsylvania Legacies 7(1): 5-9.

Chadwick, A. (1995). Illustrated History of Baseball, Chartwell Books.

Chadwick, H. (1867). The Ancient History of Base Ball. Ball Player’s Chronicle: 4.

Chadwick*, H. (1868). American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes [published in book form, 1996]. ?? New York. 2.

Chadwick*, H. (1868). "Balls Days" in the Year AD 1858. The Game of Base Ball. Columbia SC, Camden House: 178-181.

Chadwick*, H. (1868). The Game of Baseball: How to Learn It, How to Play It, How to Teach It, with Sketches of Noted Players. New York, George Munro [Reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1983].

Chadwick*, H. Notebooks.

Chadwick*, H. (1881). A Plea for Base-Ball. New York Times: 5.

Champlin*, J. a. A. E. B. (1899). Base Ball. The Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Games and Sports. New York, Henry Holt and Company [2nd Edition]: 53-74.

Charlton, J. (1991). The Baseball Chronology, MacMillan.

Church, S. R. (1902). Base Ball, 1845-1871. San Francisco, Self- published [Reprinted by Pyne Press, Princeton, 1974].

Clark, J. (2003). A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press.

Cleaver*, J. D. (1965). Heritage of a National Game: Social Baseball 1845-1875, State University of New York Press.

Collection*, E. C. C. (2000). Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from its Beginning . . . Castle Books.

Collins*, T., et al. (2005). Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports, Routledge.

Couzens*, G. S. (1980). A Baseball Album. New York, Lippincott and Crowell.

Crane, S. (1997 ). The Men Who Invented Shortstop. The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball. J. Thorn. New York, Galahad Books [originally published in 1985 or 1987]: 447-452.

Crockett*, D. S. (1961). "Sports and Recreational Practices of Union and Confederate Soldiers." Research Quarterly 32: 335-347.

Crosby*, J. (1951). Ode to the Baseball Season. Saturday Review. 35: 46.

Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." Journal of American Folklore 4: 231-233.

Cummings, C. (1997). How I Pitched the First Curve. The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball. J. Thorn. New York, Galahad Books [first published in 1985 or 1987]: 468-470.

Cvornyek, R. l. (2003). Baseball in Newark: Images of Baseball, Arcadia.

Daniel*, W. H. (1979). "The Rage in the Hill City: The Beginnings of Baseball in Lynchburg." Virginia Cavalcade 28: 186-191.

Daniels*, G. P. (1845). Boy’s and Girl’s Book of Sports. Providence, Geo. Daniels.

Danielson*, M. N. (1997). Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis, Princeton University Press.

Danzig, A., and Joe Reichler (1959). Baseball: Its Great Players, Teams, and Managers, Prentice-Hall.

DeClerico, J. M., and Barry J. Pavelec (1991). The Jersey Game: The History of Modern Baseball from Its Birth to the Big Leagues in the Garden State, Rutgers University Press.

Devine, C. (2003). Harry Wright: The Father of Professional Baseball, McFarland.

Dewey, D. (2004). The Tenth Man: The Fan in Baseball History. New York, Carroll and Graf.

Dick, Ed. (1864). The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements, Dick and Fitzgerald [reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000].

Dizikes, J. (1981). Sportsmen and Gamesmen: From the Years that Shaped American Ideas About Winning and Losing and How to Play the Game, Houghton Mifflin.

Dulles, F. R. (1940). America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation 1607-1940. New York, Appleton-Century.

Dunning*, E., and Kenneth Sheard (1979). Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players. Oxford, Martin Robinson.

Durant*, J. (1959). The Story of Baseball in Words and Pictures. New York, Hastings House [first edition was 1947].

Durso, J. (1986). Baseball and the American Dream, The Sporting News.

Egan, J. (1987). The Story of Cricket in Australia. Crows Nest, NSW, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Egan, J. M. (2008). Base Ball on the Western reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900. Jefferson, NC, McFarland.

Ellard, H. (2004). Baseball in Cincinnati: A History, McFarland.

Elston*, G. (2001). A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845 - 2000, Halcyon Press.

Endrei*, W., and Laszlo Zolnay (1986). Fun and Games in Old Europe. Budapest, Corvina Klado.

Fillmore, S. (1977). The Pleasure of the Game: The Story of Toronto Cricket, 1827-1977. Toronto, Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club.

Flexner* (1982). Baseball. Listening to America: 32-47.

Fogel, H. S. (1921). Evolution of Baseball from 1833 Up to the Present Time. Daily Evening Telegraph. Philadelphia[?].

Freyer, J., and Mark Rucker, Ed. (2005). Peverelly's National Game: Images of Baseball, Arcadia Publishing [a reprinting of the chapter "The National Game," from Charles Peverelly's 1866 self-published book, American Pastimes].

Frommer, H. (1995). Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Burroughs to the Ballparks. Dallas, Taylor Publishing.

Frommer, H. (1988). Primitive Baseball: The First Quarter-Century of the National Pastime, Atheneum.

Gabriel*, J. D. (1988). "The Celtic Claim to the Grand Old Game." Minneapolis Review of Baseball 7(3): 26-28.

Gale, F. (1871). Echoes from Old Cricket Fields, Simkin, Marshall.

Gelber, S. M. (1984). "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917." Journal of Sport History 11(1): 5-27.

Genovese, D. L. (2004). The Old Ball Ground: the Chronological History of Westfield Baseball. West Conshohocken PA, Infinity Publishing.

Gershman, M. (1993). Green Pastures (1845-1875). Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark, Houghton Mifflin: 5-23.

Gilbert*, T. (1995). Elysian Fields: The Birth of Baseball, Grolier.

Gini*, C. (1941). "Considerazioni ed Ipotesi Sull'origine del 'Om el Mahag'." Genus 5(1-2): 73-86.

Gini*, C. (1939). "Rural Games in Libya." Rural Sociology 4(3): 283-299.

Goldstein, W. (1989). Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball Cornell University Press [paperback edition, 1991].

Goldstein*, R. (1991). Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball, Dutton.

Gomme, A. B. (1894). Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 1. London, David Nutt.

Gomme, A. B. (1964). The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2. New York, Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898].

Gonzalez, C. (2007). "A New Perspective on Mexican Baseball Origins." Base Ball 1(2): 64-72.

Gorn*, E., and Warren Goldstein (1993). A Brief History of American Sports, Hill and Wang.

Gould, S. J. (1989). The Creation Myths of Cooperstown. Natural History: 14-24.

Goulstone, J. (2001). Origins. Hambledon: The Men and the Myths. Cambridge, England, Roger Heavens: 1-7.

Goulstone*, J. (1972). Early Club and Village Cricket, [Private publication].

Gower, D. History of Cricket Pellinore Productions [DVD].

Green, B. (1988). A History of Cricket. London, Barrie and Jenkins.

Green, B., Ed. (1979). Wisden Anthology 1864 - 1900, Queen Anne Press.

Green, S. (1982). Cricketing Bygones, Shire Publications.

Green, S. (1988). "Some Cricket Records." Archives 18(80): 187-198.

Griffith*, W. R. (1992). "The Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 87(2): 201-208.

Griffith*, W. R. (1897). The Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland, 1858 - 1871, John Cox.

Grossinger*, R. (1977). Baseball Variants. Baseball I Gave You the Best Years of My Life. Oakland, North Atlantic Books: 21-24.

Guarinoni*, H. (1610). The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race (Orig: Greuel der Verwustung des Menschlichen Geschlechts. Ingolstadt, Austria

Guschov, S. D. (1998). The Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Base Ball’s First All-Professional Team, McFarland.

Guttman, A. (1978). From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, Columbia University Press.

Guttman, A. (1988). A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports, University of North Carolina Press.

Guttman*, A. (1994). Baseball. Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism, Columbia University Press: 71-96.

Hajdu*, G. (1971). "Collection of Hungarian Folk Games" (as translated from Hungarian Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye). Budapest.

Hammond, W. (1952). Cricket’s Secret History. London, Stanley Paul & Co.

Harris*, R. (2001). The National Pastime and the Development and Origins of Baseball in Rhode Island, self-published.

Hartt*, R. L. (1909). "The National Game." Baseball 3(4): 42-53.

Hazlitt, W. C. (1905). Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs. London, Reeves and Turner.

Helyar, J. (1994). Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball Villard Books.

Henderson, R. W. (1947). Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games. New York, Rockport Press.

Henderson, R. W. (1939). "Baseball and Rounders." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 43(4): 303-314.

Henderson, R. W. (1977). Early American Sport: A Checklist of Books by American and Foreign Authors Published in America Prior to 1860. Rutherford NJ, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press.

Hershberger, R. (2007). "A Reconstruction of Philadelphia Town Ball." Base Ball 1(2): 28-43.

Hole, C. (1949). English Sports and Pastimes. London, B. T. Batsford, Ltd.

Holliman, J. (1931). American Sports (1785-1835). Durhan NC, Seeman Press [republished by Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1975].

Honig, D. (1985). Baseball in America, Barnes and Noble.

Howorth, P. (1995). East Yorkshire Cricket 1778-1914. Driffield, Lowndes Publications.

Hubbell*, R. W. (1948). Tribute Paid to General Doubleday, Founder of Our National Game. New York Times. New York.

Hulbert, J. (2007). "Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day." Base Ball 1(1): 73-77.

Humber, W. (1995). Diamonds in the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada Oxford University Press.

Husman, J. R. (2004). Ohio's First Baseball Game: Played by Confederates and Taught to Yankees: 8.

Hutchinson*, H. G. (1893). The Evolution of Games at Ball. The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature. 57: 831 ff.

Irwin, W. (1945). No, It Wasn't Doubleday! Baseball Digest: 52-54.

Irwin*, W. (1909). Before the Professionals Came. Collier's. 43: 12-15.

Ivor-Campbell, F. (2007). "Knickerbocker Base Ball: The Birth and Infancy of the Modern Game." Base Ball 1(2): 55-66.

Jarvie, G., ed. (2000). Sport, Scotland and the Scots. London, Tuckwell Press.

Jensen, D. (2005). The Timeline History of Baseball, Palgrave Books.

Jewell, B. (1977). Sports and Games: History and Origins. Tunbridge Wells, UK, Midas Books.

KBBClub* Knickerbocker Score Books, Game Books, and Meeting Logs [On microfilm from NYPL; SABR has a copy of the set as well as the Chadwick and Spalding and Wright scrapbooks and diaries.]

Kirsch, G. B. (2003). Baseball in Blue and Gray, Princeton University Press.

Kirsch, G. B. (1989). The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-1872, University of Illinois Press.

Kirsch, G. B. (1991). Massachusetts Baseball and Cricket, 1840-1870. Sports in Massachusetts: Historical Essays. R. Story. Westfield MA, Institute for Massachusetts Studies: 1-15.

Kirsch, G. B., ed. (1992). Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Volume 3: The Rise of Modern Sports 1840-1860, Academic International Press.

Knight, A. E. (1906). The Complete Cricketer. London, Methuen and Company.

Knowles, R. G., and Richard Morton (1896). Chapter VII: Baseball in America. Baseball: The "Oval" Series of Games. London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd: 82 ff.

Koppett, L. (1998). Preliminaries. Concise History of Major League Baseball Temple University Press: 1-14.

Krout, J. A. (1929). Annals of American Sport. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Lange*, F. W. (1938). History of Baseball in California and Pacific Coast Leagues 1847-1938; Memories of an Old Time Baseball Player. Oakland, Privately Printed.

Lansche*, G. (1991). Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered. Dallas, Taylor.

Lardner*, J. (1950). Mr. Henderson and the Cooperstown Myth. True.

Leitner, I. A. (1972). Baseball: Diamond in the Rough, Criterion Books.

Lester, J. A. (1951). A Century of Philadelphia Cricket, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Levine, P., Ed. (1989). Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research, Meckler Books.

Levine, P. (1985). A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball, Oxford University Press.

Levinson, D., and Karen Christopher, Ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present, Oxford University Press.

Lewis, G. (1970). "The Beginning of Organized Collegiate Sport." American Quarterly 22(2): 222-229.

Lewis, T. (1987). Double Century: The Story of MCC and Cricket, Hodder and Stoughton.

Liberman, N. (2003). Glove Affairs: The Romance, History and Tradition of the Baseball Glove. Chicago, Triumph.

Lieb, F. G. (1950). The Baseball Story, G. P. Putnam’s.

Light, J. F. (1997). Origins of Baseball. The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, McFarland.

Loeffler, R. (2006). Key Points in the Evolution of the Baseball from the Early 1800s to 1872: 8.

Louden*, G. A. (1939). Beginnings an d Development of the Game of Baseball. Cooperstown, self-published.

Lovett*, J. D. W. (1907). Chapter XII. Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played. Boston, Riverside Press: 125-132.

Macfarlane, A. (2007). "The Knickerbockers; San Francisco's First Baseball Team?" Base Ball 1(1): 7 - 21.

Macgregor, R. R. (1879). Early Forms of Cricket. Belgravia. 39: 450-456.

Maigaard, P. (1941). "Battingball Games." Genus 5.

Maigaard*, P. (1940). "Slagboldspillenes Historie." Danske Studien: 33-48.

Manchester, H. (1991). Ball Games: 1800-1860. Four Centuries of Sport in America: 1490-1890. Lyon, Mississippi, Derrydale Press: 121-130.

Marks, V. (1989). Wisden Illustrated History of Cricket, W. H. Smith.

Martineau, G. D. (1957). They Made Cricket. London, The Sportsman's Book Club.

Martin-Jenkins, C. (1995). Cricket: A Way of Life, Marks and Spenser [1984 hardback edition by Century Publishing].

Mayhew/Baker, e. (1858). Base Ball. A Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated. Boston, Mayhew and Baker: 20 - 24.

McAvin, A. (2005). The History of Baseball. Bloomington, Authorhouse: 108.

McCulloch, R., Ed. (2000). Baseball’s Roots: The Fascinating Birth of America’s Game, Warwick.

McCulloch, R., Ed. (1998). From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball, Warwick.

McCulloch, R. (1995). How Baseball Began: The Long Overlooked Truth about the Birth of Baseball, Warwick [reprinted by McFarland, 2001].

McCulloch*, J. (1895). Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket Toronto, Bryant Publishing.

McGuire*, M. (2003). "The Ongoing Fable of Baseball." New York Archives 2(4): 8-12.

McKinnon*, L. C. (1910). Games Played with a Ball. Baseball. 4: 71-72.

McLean, T. (1985). The English at Play in the Middle Ages, Kensal Press.

McNary, K. (2003). Black Baseball: A History of African-Americans and the National Game. London, PRC Publishing.

Mears*, C. D. Scrapbooks.

Mehl, E. (1948). "Baseball in the Stone Age." Western Folklore 7(2): 145-161.

Melville, T. (2001). Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League, McFarland.

Melville, T. (1998). The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America, Bowling Green University Popular Press.

Menke, F. G. (1944). Baseball. Encyclopedia of Sports, A. S. Barnes: 55ff.

Menke, F. G. (1947). Baseball -- Major. The New Encyclopedia of Sports. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company: 77ff.

Menna*, L. K. (1995). Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Volume 2: Origins of Modern Sports, 1820 - 1840 Academic International Press.

Merrifield*, A. S. (1990). Baseball: Early History to 1869. Sports Encyclopedia of North America. Gulf Breeze FL, Academic International Press: 139-152.

Miers, E. S. (1967). Baseball, Grosset and Dunlap.

Miklich, E. (2005). The Rules of the Game; A Compilataion of the Rules of Baseball 1845-1900, 19C Base Ball.

Millen, P. (2001). From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books.

Miller, S. G. (2004). Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, University of California Press.

Moesche, C. R. (2000). Day-by-Day in Baseball History, McFarland.

Montague* (1838). The Youth's Encyclopedia of Health

Morland, G. (1914). Balldom: A History of Baseball, Produced in DVD by Golden Age, 1999.

Morris, P. (2003). Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan, University of Michigan Press.

Morris, P. (2008). But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee.

Morris, P. (2007). Chapter 2. The Pursuit of Pleasure Under Difficulties. Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press: 15-32.

Morris, P. (2006). A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. Chicago, Ivan Dee.

Morse, J. (1888). Sphere and Ash: History of Base Ball. Boston, J. F. Spofford [reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1984].

Mote, A. (1997). The Glory Days of Cricket: The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down, Robson Books.

Moult, T., ed. (1935). Bat and Ball; A New Book of Cricket, Arthur Barker Ltd (Reprinted in 1960 by Sprotsman's Book Club).

Nash*, P. J. (2003). Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetary, Arcadia.

Nemec, D., and Saul Wisnia (1997). Baseball: More Than 150 Years, Publications International Ltd.

Nemec, D. (1994). The Rules of Baseball: An Anecdotal Look at the Rules, and How They Came to Be, Lyons and Burford.

Nemec*, D. "The Rules of Baseball: An Anecdotal Look at the Rules of Baseball and How They Came To Be."

Newell, W. W. (1883). Games and Songs of American Children. New York, Dover [1963 reprint].

Norridge, J. (2008). Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? How the British Invented Sport, Allen Lane.

Norton, F. C. (1904). That Strange Yankee Game, Wicket. Hartford Courant [Reprinted in Bristol Connecticut, City Printing Company, Hartford, 1907}. Hartford.

Nugent, W. H. (1925). Baseball's Age of Innocence. American Legion Weekly. 7: 4 - 5, 14 - 17.

Nyren, J. (1828). The Progress of Cricket (seventh edition). Reprinted in Chronicles of Cricket. London, Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1888: 92-101.

Old-Timer (1896). Memoirs of the Father of Base Ball: He Resides in New Haven and Retains an Interest in the Game. Sporting News.

Orem, P. (1961). Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena CA, private printing.

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Updated December 2008

The Protoball Bibliography:

A Chronological Listing

Note: Items marked with an asterisk are not held by Protoball.

For unmarked titles, Protoball will consult texts for researchers upon request.

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Anon. (1858). Games for All Seasons. London, James Blackwood.

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Anon.* (1859). Base Ball -- Who Plays the Genuine Game. New York Tribune.

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Chadwick, H. (1867). The Ancient History of Base Ball. Ball Player’s Chronicle: 4.

Chadwick, H. (1868). The Game of Baseball: How to Learn It, How to Play It, How to Teach It, with Sketches of Noted Players. New York, George Munro [Reprinted by Camden House, Columbia SC, 1983].

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Anon.* (1869). Base-ball: Review of the Season of ’68, With a Chapter on the Rise, Decline, and Future Prospects of the Game. Spirit of the Times. 19: 359.

Anon.* (1870). Base-Ball as a Pastime and as a Business. Spirit of the Times. 23: 235.

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Anon.* (1884). Baseball: Its Rise and Progress. The New York Clipper Annual, New York Clipper: 29-36.

Anon.* (1887). Base Ball Reminiscenses: Part I -- The Evolution of Base Ball. National Daily Base Ball Gazette.