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Lot Number: 118
Description: Significant 1903 "History of Colored Base Ball" by Sol White. Without question, the rarest and most valuable of all baseball related books with less then a dozen documented copies extant. White was a player, manager, and owner. Educated at Wilberforce University he was literate and a professional historian. His stated goal with this book was "to follow the mutations of colored base ball, as accurately as possible". The volume was the first published book devoted to African American baseball and remained as such for over 40 years. It is highly regarded not only for its scarcity and related value but equally for its invaluable content regarding the earliest history of African American baseball. The offered example remains in very good condition with small chips to the front corners and one minor back corner chip. Back cover has a minor 3" crease and the spine remains fully intact with pages tightly bound. Interior pages are quite clean remaining near white with some very minor chips to the right bottom corners of the first six pages. The history of early African American baseball in this country remains to date an ongoing discovery process. Mr. White's pioneering volume on the subject ranks among the more substantive and important baseball related books in existence. In the words of noted Negro League historian Jerry Malloy, "Sol White's greatest triumph, in a lifetime of devotion to the game he loved so dearly, was the historian's quintessential bounty. To wit, he rescued merit from oblivion.": VG-EX
Estimated Price: ($10,000.00-$15,000.00)
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