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• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov
• The Book of Baseball: The National Game From the Earliest Days to the Present Season (New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1911), by William Patten and J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Christy Mathewson, contrib. by John N. Wheeler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball from the inside. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Christy Mathewson and John N. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball fever : early baseball in Michigan (University of Michigan Press, 2003), by Peter Morris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov

• The National Game (St. Louis: National Game Pub. Co., 1910), by Alfred H. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tiger wore spikes : an informal biography of Ty Cobb (A. S. Barnes and Co., 1956), by John D. McCallum (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Foxy Grandpa Playing Ball (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, ca. 1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle of Base-Ball (including Mathewson's "How I Became a Big-League Pitcher"; New York: The Century Co., 1912), by C. H. Claudy, contrib. by Christy Mathewson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smokey's fire prevention activity book : baseball. (Forest Service, Dept. of Agriculture :, 1992), by United States Forest Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spalding's Official Base Ball Record (partial serial archives)
• Spalding's official base ball guide (Horton Pub. Co., 1895), by National League of Professional Baseball Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1876, Spalding's official base ball guide (Horton Pub. Co., 1876), by National League of Professional Baseball Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spalding's Official Base Ball Record (partial serial archives)

• The view from the dugout : the journals of Red Rolfe (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Red Rolfe and William M. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Baseball's revenue gap : pennant for sale? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, November 21, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by Business Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)

• Professional baseball teams and the antitrust laws : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 500 ... St. Petersburg, FL, March 21, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by Monopolies United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball's revenue gap : pennant for sale? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, November 21, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by Business Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)

• Subjecting Professional Baseball Clubs to the Antitrust Laws : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Legislation, Eighty-Third Congress, second session, on Mar. 18, Apr. 8, May 25, 1954. (U.S. G.P.O., 1954), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly (page images at HathiTrust)

• The great American game in the Chicago parks. (Chicago Park District, Recreation Division, 1939), by Jack Sheehan, United States. Work Projects Administration (Ill.), and Chicago Park District. Recreation Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The key issues confronting minor league baseball : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, Washington, DC, July 20, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)

• The key issues confronting minor league baseball : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, Washington, DC, July 20, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball's antitrust immunity : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... December 10, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Monopolies United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professional baseball teams and the antitrust laws : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 500 ... St. Petersburg, FL, March 21, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by Monopolies United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court imposed major league baseball antitrust exemption. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by Business Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Major league baseball antitrust reform : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S. 53, a bill to require the general application of the antitrust laws to major league baseball, and for other purposes, June 17, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baseball's antitrust exemption : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, March 31, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairness in Antitrust in National Sports (FANS) Act of 2001 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 3288, December 6, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stadium Financing and Franchise Relocation Act of 1999 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, on S. 952, a bill to expand an antitrust exemption applicable to professional sports leagues and to require, as a condition of such an exemption, participation by professional football and major league baseball sports leagues in the financing ... Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Philadelphia, PA, June 15, June 22, and September 13, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The application of federal antitrust laws to major league baseball : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, February 13, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball Cyclopedia (New York: Baseball Magazine Co., c1922), by Ernest J. Lanigan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The impact on collective bargaining of the antitrust exemption; H.R. 5095, Major League Play Ball of 1995 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 29, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court imposed major league baseball antitrust exemption. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by Business Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Negro in Sports (San Francisco: Daily People's World, ca. 1947), by Nat Low, illust. by Pele Edises (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of American pastimes containing a history of the principal base-ball, cricket, rowing, and yachting clubs of the United States. (The author, 1866), by Charles A. Peverelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• The book of American pastimes containing a history of the principal base-ball, cricket, rowing, and yachting clubs of the United States. (The author, 1866), by Charles A. Peverelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sokolská výprava do Ameriky r. 1909 (Tiskem knihtiskárny dra Ed. Grégra, nákladem vlastním, 1910), by Josef Scheiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Scottish invasion, being a brief review of American golf in relation to Pinehurst and the Sixty Second National Amateur. With a foreward by Joesph C. Dey, Jr. (Pinehurst Publishers, 1962), by Richard S. Tufts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The making of American physical education. - (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962), by Arthur Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years devoted to the cause of physical culture, 1864-1914 (Germania Publ. Co., 1914), by George Brosius (page images at HathiTrust)

• The loves of the angels : a poem (Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1823), by Thomas Moore, Thomas Longworth, James Valentine Seaman, Evert Duyckinck, Charles Wiley, William B. Gilley, R. & W. & G. Bartow (Firm), Collins & Hannay, A.T. Goodrich & Co, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), Samuel Campbell & Son, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

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