A Miscellany of 19th Cent. American Base-Ball. Buckram Grove Press Illustrations: * denotes added graphics (Green Bay Club)* front pastedown “The Batsman” [Harper’s Monthly Cover]* frontispiece the field vi battersbox 3 base-ball at Lord’s* 8 “out curve” [begining] 14 “out curve” [end] 15 catcher 17 “drop ball” 19 running 21 sliding 25 fielder 27 grounder 33 “The Spectator” [music sheet]* 38 The Atlantics Club (ca. 1870)* 56 Baseball Heroes (Police Gazette)* 83 League Ball* rear pastedown Concordance of combined index. accuracy acquisition admission Agreement Alerts American Association arc arm assists Associations Athletics Atlantics Atlantics attempts ball-field ball-ground ball-games ball-playing banquet baseman bases batsman batters battery batting benches betting blacklists book-keepers Boston Boston Ball Club Bostons breastplate Brooklyn Brooklyn Athletics Buckeyes Buckskins Canada Canutes Capitoline captain Carelessness catcher catching Celt champion championships character Chicago Chicago Club children Christianity Cincinnati Cincinnatis clubs college collegians companionship convention Congress consecutive convention courage cricket Cupids curve Dalgettys darkness defrauded delivery diamond dispute distance dollars drop dues Dugald Dugaldgettys Eckfords Eckfords Emulous enforcement endurance England English error Esculapian Esculapian Club evil evolutions Exotics expense expensiveness experience fair fee female fence field fielder fielding fifty-foot financial finger firanchise fly-catches foot forced Forest Cities foul fraud gambling gate-money Gloversville gloves govern Guelph, Ontario Harvards Haymakers health-giving homeplate horserace Indiana infield infielders injuries injury inning juggle jumping jurisdiction Key-stones Kickenepawlings Kikiongas knee Knickerbocker Club knot-hole larking league legs Liberty lines Lowell luck lungs Mains Malta Club Manhattan Maple Leaf Club Marylands Merchants milkmen morals Morrisania mouth-piece muffin muscles Mutuals national game National League National Agreement National Nebraska New-York New-York Club New Brunswick New Orleans New York nines NY Eaton Omahas Ontario Orleans outfield outfielders outs overrun pain-killers palm penalties Pennsylvania Philadelphia Unions physicians pitch pitching plate player pluck police pool-selling position precision press prices prizefighters professional protection Providence publicity Puritanism putouts Pye race-course radius rain rain ratio records recover recreation recruit Red Stockings reporter reputation requirements rest restrictions right-handed rivals rotation rubber rule runners running runs Russell sacrifice safe safeguards salaries salary Saxon science scientific score scorer scoresheets scoring seating self-reliance semi-professionals short-stop sides Southerns spectators speed statistics Stockings stolen strain stratagems strategies strategy strike taint technicalities teeth throw thrower throwing training travels trees Triple Two-old-cat umpire un-derhand unfair uniform Unions university vices weather Western Whiteings Williamsport Club wine-bibbing winners woman Yale Yankees