Baseball 1876-1890
John Montgomery Ward, pitcher, shortstop
and leader on and off the field, Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division , Baseball Cards from the Benjamin K.
Edwards Collection (original) bbc 0293. This
card is part of the outstanding Library of Congress presentation,
"Baseball Cards, 1887-1914," and is searchable in several ways including
player.
This period is also covered by the excellent "Early Baseball Pictures, " presentation of the Library of Congress.
The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball Site offers a copy of the original National League Constitution
Major League Baseball's web site celebrates the 114 th anniversary of the "Casey at the Bat."
Debra Shattuck looks women and baseball in "Bats, Balls, and Books: Baseball and Higher Education for Women at Three Eastern Women's Colleges, 1866-1900," available from the North American Society for Sport History's Journal of Sport History online.
Mark Twain's, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court contains a humorous refence to teaching knights baseball on p. 388 and is available on line from the University of Virginia.
This page was last updated
March 30, 2005
Background image, an oldtimer (George
Herman Ruth)
takes his cuts. during the 1940s.Photo provided by William R.
Conroy.