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Hardcover with dust jacket. dust jacket glued to book. Ex-library copy. With normal flaws.

Second printing. A few small stains to textblock -- otherwise book is sturdy and attractive, with a clean, unmarked interior. Minor wear and some creasing to top edge of jacket; moderate rubbing / smudging to covers; sun-fading to spine, leaving title faint; nickel-sized stain to back cover and less-than-dime-size stain to front cover. Attractive front cover. In protective sleeve.

A nice copy. Text in clean/unmarked condition. DJ is missing. Binding is tight.

Octavo, hardcover, VG in good white pictorial dj with light edgewear. Fairly rare history of each team in the NL of the early '60's by the past curator of the Baseball Hall of Fame. First Edition. Fine overview. 277 pp. including index. Large b & w photo section.

First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good, in dust jacket. Signed by Lee Allen on the front flyleaf. 'In early 1959, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Allen would replace retiring Ernest J. Lanigan as historian. It was a propitious appointment for both the Hall and Allen who brought with him to Cooperstown not only his knowledge and research skills, but also a vast baseball library. . . . Allen established a daily routine that included meeting a steady stream of visitors, answering mail as soon as it arrived, and chipping away at the long-range research projects he set for himself. His workdays soon stretched to twelve hours and his weeks to seven days. . . . Allen did not sit on his research. He turned it into a long list of articles, innumerable speeches to dozens of groups, and a series of books renowned for their original insights. In The National League: The Official History (1961), for example, he used his unprecedented access to league documents and correspondence to throw new light on pivotal events such as Fred Merkle's 'boner' and Hal Chase's involvement in fixing games' (Steve Gietschier, 'Lee Allen', Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Web site).