Sources

19c Base Ball gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following sources:

Books

• Block, David. Baseball Before We Knew It. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
• Brock, Darryl. If I Never Get Back. New York: Plume, 1989.
• Chadwick, Henry. Haney's Base Ball Book of Reference. New York: Haney & Co., 1867.
• Chadwick, Henry, editor. De Witt's Base Ball Umpire's Guide. New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1875.
• Chadwick, Henry. Chadwick's American Base Ball Manual. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874.
• Charlton, James. The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History. Issue #24, Ohio: Society for American Baseball Research, Summer 2004.
• Di Salvatore, Brian. A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
• Gershman, Michael. Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
• Greve, Charles Theodore. Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, Vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Co., 1904. Digitized by Google.
• James, Bill. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers from 1870 to Today. New York: Scribner, 1997.
• Kirsch, George B. Baseball in Blue and Gray. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.
• Knickerbocker, Wendy. Sunday at the Park. Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000.
• Lamster, Mark. Spalding's World Tour. New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
• Lowry, Philip J. Green Cathedrals. New York: Walker & Company, 2006
• McCulloch, Ron. From Cartwright to Shoeless Joe: The Warwick Compendium of Early Baseball. Los Angeles: Warwick Publishing, 1998.
• Miklich, Eric. Rules of the Game. Self Published, 2002.
• Morris, Peter. A Game of Inches. The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball. The Game on the Field. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
• Nash, Peter, J. Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. New Hampshire, 2003.
• Nemec, David. The Beer and Whiskey League. New York: Lyons and Burford, 1994.
• Nemec, David. The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Base Ball. New York: Donald I. Fine Books, 1997.
• Nemec, David. The Official Rules of Baseball. New York: Barnes & Nobel Books, 1994.
• Nemec, David. The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated. Connecticut: The Lyons Press, 2006.
• Orem, Preston D. Baseball - 1845–1881 from Newspaper Accounts. Self-published, 341 E. Calaveras Street, Altadena, California, 1962.
• Peverelly, Charles A. The Book of American Pastimes. New York: Self Published. 1866. Digitized by Google.
• Ryczek, William J. Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball's National Association, 1871–1875. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992.
• Ryczek, William J. When Johnny Came Sliding Home. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998.
• Seymour, Harold. Baseball - The Early Years. New York: Oxford Press, 1960.
• Solomon, Burt. Where They Ain't. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
• Soos, Troy. Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918. Massachusetts: Parnassus Prints, 1997.
• Sullivan, Dean A. Early Innings: A Documentary of Baseball, 1825–1908. Nebraska: Bison Books, 1995.
• Szymanski, Stefan and Andrew Zimbalist. National Pastime: How the Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer. Washington, D.C.: The Bookings Institute, 2005.
• Thorn, John. The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, Special Pictorial Issue the 19th century. Vol. 3, No.1, New York: Society for American Baseball Research, Spring 1984.
• Thorn, John, Pete Palmer, Michael Gershman and David Pietrusza, eds. Total Baseball, 6th ed. Kingston, N.Y.: Total Sports, 1999.
• Wright, Marshall D. The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2000.
• Zoss, Joel and John Bowman. Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball. New York: Macmillan, 1996.

Articles and Newspapers

• Shieber, Tom, "The Evolution of the Baseball Diamond," in Total Baseball, John Thorn and Pete Palmer, Eds. New York: Viking Adult, 1995, pp. 113-24.
• "Porter's Spirit of the Times," December 6, 1856, p. 229.
• "Porter's Spirit of the Times," March 7, 1857, p. 5.

Base Ball Guides

• Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player. New York: Irwin P. Beadle & Co., 1860–1862 and 1864–1881.
• Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs - 1876. Philadelphia; Reach & Johnston, 1876.
• De Witt's Base Ball Guide. New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1869, 1871, 1873 and 1875–1877.
• Players' National League Base Ball Guide. Chicago: F.H. Brunnell, 1890.
• Reach's Official American Association Base Ball Guide. Philadelphia: A.J. Reach & Bros., 1882–1887 and 1890.
• Reach's Official Base Ball Guide. Philadelphia: A.J. Reach & Bros., 1895–1896 and 1898–1900.
• Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide. Chicago: A.G. Spalding and Bros., 1877–1901.

Periodicals/Web Sites

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1845–1900
  http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/index.htm
• NY Times Historical, 1851–1900
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  http://nypl.org/
• Brooklyn Ballparks.com http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/
• Steve Dimitry's Extinct Sports Leagues
  http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/oldbase.html
• Retro Sheet
  http://www.retrosheet.org/
• Reds History
  http://www.redshistory.com/Timeline/1866-1875.htm
• Baseball Library .com
  http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/
• SABR
  http://www.sabr.org/
• SABR UK
  http://www.sabruk.org/examiner/05/tours.html
• Ohio Memory; An online scrap book of Ohio history
  http://www.ohiomemory.org/index.html
• The Ships List
  http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html
• Spartacus Educational
  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FalcockC.htm

Other

• Personal correspondence with David Nemec
• Personal correspondence with Darryl Brock
• Personal correspondence with John Thorn
• Personal correspondence with Tom Shieber
• Personal correspondence with Paul Hunkele
• Personal correspondence with Rob Loeffler
• Personal correspondence with Phil Hynes
• Personal correspondence with Charles J. McCarty
• Personal correspondence with Phil Lowry
• Personal correspondence with David Dyte
• Personal correspondence with Richard Sattler
• Personal correspondence with Kevin Faria
• Personal correspondence with Peter Morris
• Cincinnati Red Stockings Score Books 1868–1870

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