Female baseball team recorded in the hotel register at St. James Hotel, Springfield Ohio, September 1, 1879

by Women's Sports

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

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Springfield, OH: No Publisher , 1879. A rare piece of ephemera documenting women's baseball in the 19th century. Bifolium inscribed on four sides, covering guests who stayed at the hotel in the first week of September, including the eight members of the Red Stockings of New York, and the same number of Blue Stockings of Philadelphia, identifying each by name and position: catcher, first base, pitcher, second base, right

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