711 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout, mostly from photographs (including many group shots of various baseball teams); 4 color plates (3 baseball and 1 cricket related) from lithographs including frontispiece showing a baseball game (audience on ground with no bleachers), with tissue-guards. (8vo) 23x16 cm (9x6¾), publisher's original brown cloth lettered in gilt, beveled edges, decorative endpapers. First Edition.
Primarily focuses on American baseball, including a thorough account of the 1888 Baseball World Tour. Other sports covered include: cricket, American football, lacrosse, tennis, rowing and cycling.
