* The Battle of Base-Ball by C.H. Claudy. Including How I Became a Big-League Pitcher by Christy Mathewson. New York: The Century Co., 1912. First Edition. Black and white photographs including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete.
An exceedingly scarce history of baseball from the early 20th century. Includes a chapter from Christy "Big Six" Mathewson and a section on Spalding's rules.
* Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers and Hugh S. Fullerton. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Company, 1910. First Edition.
Scarce first edition of this early baseball history from the Chicago Cubs second baseman, part of the famous "Tinker-to-Evans-to-Chance" double play combo.
* Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome by James A. Michener (Inscribed and Signed by Stan Musial). Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1990.
Inscribed and signed by the 1950s baseball outfielder Stan Musial (1920-2013), who accompanied Michener on his trip to Poland and Rome where the two men met with Pope John Paul II. Musial apparently signed a number of copies, this one addressed "To Godfrey & Betty / Michener detailed our trip very well / Stan Musial."
