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62 issues
1878-1939
Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured...
/ Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation
11 issues
1905-1915
Before the days of handy calculators, tables of percentages were helpful to determine batting averages and winning percentage. While...
/ Before the days of handy calculators, tables of percentages were helpful to determine batting averages and winning percentage. While no longer particularly useful, these guide do have a nice collection of baseball advertisements from the early 1900s intermingled within the guide.
17 issues
1908-1924
Was renamed "The Little Red Book" beginning in 1926...
/ Was renamed "The Little Red Book" beginning in 1926
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1940
During their last two years of publication, the Reach and Spalding Guides were combined into a single edition....
/ During their last two years of publication, the Reach and Spalding Guides were combined into a single edition.