Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide, 1939
Library of Congress Spalding's official base ball guide, 1939 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE 1939 I ,f -;1 , 1 : --. <1, -- -i . I , SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE SIXTY-THIRD YEAR 1939 I t I ~ 7; \P :. I. 411 rAni v CUl JV ! 'IVAI LA!\'Dll, (hicagoG Commissioner of Base Ball. Contents OFFICIAL BASE BALL RULES. With Explanatory Notes and "Knotty Problems" in convenient detachable pocket size. Photographs for major league groups by C. M. Conlonl Englewood, N.J.. and George Burke, 847 Belmont Avenue, Chicago, I11. boy' ,v- -- Club o "' J8 5. fa Editorial Comment ' t 1 . " ' , i _ : f, t- "it . - . 15 - - - -_ J - -~ WILLIAM HARRIDGE, President of the American League. Spalding's official base ball guide, 1939 http://www.loc.gov/resource/spalding.00179 Library of Congress 1004. 10 Spalding Official Base Ball Guidet McGraw was a dominant figure of the national game. In Truxton he got his start in the national pastime and there the population of 400 persons think - of McGraw as base ball itself. And so to honor the man who made truxton rank with Cooperstown and ~!.? - other base ball shrines, came the New York Giants with Manager Terry and other famous players who are now standard bearers of the McGraw tradition :; in the Polo Grounds. In all there were fifteen players in the Giants team. Also came Mrs. McGraw, widow of the famous manager; Horace C. Stoneham, young president of the Giants; Edward T. Brannick, popular secretary of the club: Lieut.- Gov. M. William Bray and a throng of other ardent admirers from Central New York.
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