Excerpt from Spalding's Base Ball Guide, and Official League Book for 1894: A Complete Hand Book of the National Game of Base Ball, Containing the Full Official League Record for 1893 Spalding's league guide for 1894 is the seventeenth annual edition of the work, as the first league guide was issued in the spring of 1876. For the past dozen years the guide has been the leading publication of its kind in the professional base ball world; and for years past has stood alone as the model hand book of the entire base ball frater mity, amateur and professional alike, as it is the only authorized book of rules and statistics of the professional clubs of the country now issued, as the appended endorse ment by the President of the National League proves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.