Old baseball titles available on-line

November 16, 2007

Don’t you just love the Internet? It’s filled with all sorts of treasure.

The latest nugget I’ve found is from Manybooks.net, a site for free e-books, available via download for several platforms, which include some rare baseball titles:

The High School Pitcher, by H. Irving Hancock

The Red Headed Outfield and Other Stories (1920) and The Young Pitcher (1911), by Zane Grey

 

 

Spaulding’s Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889, by Anonymous

Rival Pitchers of Oakdale, by Morgan Scott (1911)

 

A Ball Player’s Career, by Adrian C. “Cap” Anson (1900)

 

Base-Ball: How to Become a Player, by John M. Ward (1888)

You Know Me, Al (1916) and Alibi Ike (based on a series of 1915 short stories), by Ring Lardner

 

The “search” function is a wonder invention. Visit just about any publication of duration and stature and plug in “baseball” in the little rectangular box and see what you come up with. Some magazines, such as Time (which has its full archives on-line), offer full versions of the stories; others just abstracts, with the full story available for a one-time or subscription fee. Some, like the on-line version of ESPN The Magazine, even provide digital images of the original page (for an “Insiders” fee, or free if you subscribe to the print edition).

I’m looking forward to the day Sports Illustrated comes out with a digital edition of its full run. Other magazines such as The New Yorker, Playboy, and Rolling Stone have come out with DVD versions, so it’s just a matter of time.

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