Baseball Games: Home Versions of the National Pastime, 1860S-1960s (A Schiffer Book for... by Mark Cooper and Douglas Congdon-Martin

Baseball Games: Home Versions of the National Pastime, 1860S-1960s (A Schiffer Book for...

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Mark Cooper is a physician who has been collecting baseball artifacts for many years. Douglas Congdon-Martin is the co-author of Baseball Treasures: Memorabilia from the National Pastime, also published by Schiffer Publishing.

Reader Reviews
This is simply a picture book of a bunch of baseball games with some organization and text fill. The games are organized by century (18th & 19th), and by type (player-endorsed, non-endorsed, card, action and coin-operated). There's a bit of baseball history, but what you'll want this for is the attention to historical detail in the games themselves. There are hundreds of games photographed in a reasonable (if not exceptional) amount of detail; most of the text is just a description of what's in the pictures. Many versions of popular games are compared, with information on how to tell the versions apart, which will be invaluable if you're a collector. For some reason there's four pages on Cadaco, but neither APBA nor Strat-O-Matic get a look in, nor do more contemporary games from 3M or Sports Illustrated or Avalon Hill. Don't expect a forty-dollar art book with prose that'll entertain you into the night. The printing quality, photo quality, and text-quality are only so so. I'm still waiting for the book that compares how the different games are designed strategically and how they play. This one's aimed more at collectors.

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