DE WITT'S BASE-BALL GUIDE. FOR 1874. Containing the New Rules of the Game, as Revised at the Professional Convention of 1874. With an Explanatory Appendix for Umpires...

New York: Robert M. De Witt, (1874). First Edition. wraps. Wear and small losses along spine and extremities, old faint pencil notations on front and rear wrappers; all edges trimmed; old pencil scrawl on verso of frontispiece; ownership signature in pencil on final text leaf. About Very Good. Original pictorial yellow wraps (4" x 6-1/4"); 99, (1) pages; with pages 63/64 misbound after page 42. Illustrated with frontispiece, as well as charts and tables. A very scarce and early guide to baseball, by the “Father of Baseball,” Henry Chadwick (1824-1908). Published annually from 1868 to 1885, De Witt's baseball guides were the official publication of both the Professional and Amateur National Associations, and contain a flurry of information on the game's rules, scoring, player statistics, advice on pitching and hitting, game records, and more.