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Lot # 661: The Boston Baseball Book

Starting Bid: $500.00

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Item was in Auction "June 2010 Catalog",
which ran from 6/8/2010 12:00 AM to
7/9/2010 9:00 PM



Known throughout collecting circles as the Boston Baseball Book, this rare vintage book's official title is "Boston Base Ball Club 1871 - 1897 (A History of the Boston Base Ball Club)." Published in 1897 by M.F. Quinn & Co., the hardcover tome contains 241 pages of information about the club, biographies of the players, photographs, illustrations and even several pages of vintage advertisements. One of the rarest and most desirable baseball books of all, this copy of the Boston Baseball Book is completely intact and clean, with only a short inscription on the flyleaf and some pencil writing on the inside front cover and flyleaf. EX.

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