Sources

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

Books

• Batesel, Paul. Players and Teams of the National Association, 1871–1875. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012.
• 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.
• Felber, Bill, ed. Inventing Baseball; The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century. Phoenix, AZ: The Society for American Baseball Research, Inc., 2013.
• 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.
• Guschov, Stephen D. The Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Base Ball's First All-Professional Team. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1998.
• 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.
• Kerr, Roy. Sliding Billy Hamilton. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010.
• 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.
• Morris, Peter, William J. Ryczek, Jan Finkel, Leonard Levin and Richard Malatzky, eds. Base Ball Founders Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.
• Morris, Peter, William J. Ryczek, Jan Finkel, Leonard Levin and Richard Malatzky, eds. Base Ball Pioneers, 1850–1870 Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012.
• Morris, Peter. But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843–1870. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.
• Nash, Peter, J. Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. New Hampshire, 2003.
• Nemec, David and Miklich, Eric. Forfeits and Successfully Protest Games in Major League Baseball: A Complete Record, 1871–2013. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.
• 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 Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Base Ball, Second Edition. Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 2006.
• 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.
• Nemec, David. Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871–1900, Vol 1 and Vol 2. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
• Nemec, David. The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010.
• Orem, Preston D. Baseball - 1845–1881 From The Newspaper Accounts. Self-published, 341 E. Calaveras Street, Altadena, California, 1961.
• Pearson, Daniel M. Base-Ball in 1889: Players v. Owners. Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.
• Peverelly, Charles A. The Book of American Pastimes. New York: Self Published. 1866. Digitized by Google.
• Ryczek, William J. Baseball's First Inning. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009.
• 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.
• Shiffert, John. Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006.
• 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, ed. Base Ball; A Journal of the Early Game. Spring 2011. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011.
• Thorn, John. Baseball in the Garden of Eden. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
• 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.
• "NY Evening Telegraph," April 15–October 20

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., 1882–1891.
• Reach's Official Base Ball Guide. Philadelphia: A.J. Reach & Bros., 1892–1901.
• Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide. Chicago: A.G. Spalding and Bros., 1877–1901.

Periodicals/Web Sites

• Baseball Library .com
  http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/
• Brooklyn Ballparks.com http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/
• 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/
• Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player Guides
  http://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels%3A262
• Ohio Memory; An online scrap book of Ohio history
  http://www.ohiomemory.org/index.html
• Protobll
  http://protoball.org/Protoball:About
• Retro Sheet
  http://www.retrosheet.org/
• SABR
  http://www.sabr.org/
• Spartacus Educational
  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FalcockC.htm
• The Library of Congress
  http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/
• The Ships List
  http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html

Other

• Personal correspondence with David Ball
• Personal correspondence with Darryl Brock
• Personal correspondence with David Dyte
• Personal correspondence with Kevin Faria
• Personal correspondence with Richard Hershberger
• Personal correspondence with Paul Hunkele
• Personal correspondence with Phil Hynes
• Personal correspondence with Rob Loeffler
• Personal correspondence with Phil Lowry
• Personal correspondence with Charles J. McCarty
• Personal correspondence with Larry McCray
• Personal correspondence with Peter Morris
• Personal correspondence with David Nemec
• Personal correspondence with Chuck Rosciam
• Personal correspondence with William Ryczek
• Personal correspondence with Richard Sattler
• Personal correspondence with Tom Shieber
• Personal correspondence with Robert Tholkes
• Personal correspondence with John Thorn
• Personal correspondence with Craig Waff
• Cincinnati Red Stockings Score Books 1868–1870

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