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Casway, Jerrold. Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

De Valeria, Dennis, and Jeanne Burke De Valeria. Honus Wagner: A Biography. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

Di Salvatore, Bryan. A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Eisen, George, and David K. Wiggins, eds. Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture. Westoprt, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

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Kimball, Richard Ian. Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Lomax, Michael E. Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

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Pearson, Daniel Merle. Baseball in 1889: Players vs. Owners. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1993.

Pietrusza, David. Major Leagues: The Formation, Sometimes Absorption, and Mostly Inevitable Demise of 18 Professional Baseball Organizations, 1871 to Present Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991.

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Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Riess, Steven A. Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1995.

Ryczek, William J. When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.

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Terry, James L. Long before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2002.

Tygiel, Jules. Past Time: Baseball as History. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Watterson, John Sayle. College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Winter, Thomas. Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Zingg, Paul J. Harry Hopper: An American Baseball Life. Campaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004.