Baseball Personalities by Powers, Jimmy - 1949

NY: Rudolph Field Publisher, 1949. Former owner's ink inscription on ffep, address label on fep, age toned end papers, else textblock is clean and tight. Light sunning to the top edges, bumped head and foot of spine, bumped corners. Unclipped dust jacket, front fold-in detatched but present, heavily edge worn, several chips and tears, soiling, mylar sleeved for safe-keeping; 320p.. Cloth. Very Good/Fair (in mylar). Illus. by B&W Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Rudolph Field, 1949. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Magic marker ink-out of previous owner name to rear pastedown..

NY: Rudolph Field, 1949. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in like dj that is missing about a 1" triangular piece of the bottom front panel. Forward by Casey Stengel (in Stengelese! Just kidding, he's actually quite articulate!). Profiles of some of baseball's wildest players including Babe Herman, Babe Ruth, Dazzy Vance, Dizzy Dean, John McGraw, and 17 others, Great stuff!

NY: Rudolph Field, 1949. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First printing. Hardcover, 327 pps. illustrated with photos. Foreword by Casey Stengel. Famed New York Daily News sportswriter Jimmy Powers provides stories of "the darlings and the hated" of baseball from the early days of John McGraw, Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb through the era of Babe Ruth and into the then-modern-day stars such as Williams and Jackie Robinson. Anecdotes of the big names are here as well as tales of lesser known characters such as Babe Herman, Al Schacht, Bobo Newsom and Dazzy Vance. A tight copy, genearlly fine with just a trace of wear at the spine ends, prev. own. sig. front pastedown under the jacket flap. In clean dust jacket with the usual shallow chipping about the egdes.

Place_Pub: New York: Rudolph Field Publisher, 1949. fair to good, as is. 320, illus., some discoloration inside hinges, sticker residue ins front flyleaf, DJ torn in two pieces, most of DJ spine missing. DJ worn and somewhat soiled: edges torn and pieces missing. Foreword by Casey Stengel. The author was the sports editor and columnist of the New York Daily News. Vivid stories of more than 50 of the most colorful ball players of all time, including Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, and Yogi Berra; illustrated with 32 full-page photographs.