. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide. fthe pastime through trying years of struggleagainst prevailing evils. He opposed thegamblers; he fought to eradicatedrunkenness; he urged and intro-duced new and higher ideals forthe sport; he was quick to see thatball playing and the business man-agement of clubs, at the same timeand by the same men, were imprac-ticable ; he knew that ball playersmight be quite competent as magnates, but not while playingthe game; he was in the forefront of the fight against syndi-cating Base Ball and making of a Nations pastime a sordidTrust; he was the pi
. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide. fthe pastime through trying years of struggleagainst prevailing evils. He opposed thegamblers; he fought to eradicatedrunkenness; he urged and intro-duced new and higher ideals forthe sport; he was quick to see thatball playing and the business man-agement of clubs, at the same timeand by the same men, were imprac-ticable ; he knew that ball playersmight be quite competent as magnates, but not while playingthe game; he was in the forefront of the fight against syndi-cating Base Ball and making of a Nations pastime a sordidTrust; he was the pioneer to lead competing AmericanBase Ball teams to a foreign land ; he took two championteams to Great Britain in 1 874, and two others on a tour ofthe world in 1888-9; he was present at the birth of theNational League, and has done as much as any livingAmerican to uphold and prolong the life of this great pioneerBase Ball organization. ^ , When A. G. Spalding talks about Americas NationalGame he speaks by authority of that he does know, because. he has been in the councils of the management wheneverthere have been times of strenuous endeavor to purge itfrom abuses and keep it clean for the people of America—young and old In this work Mr. Spalding, after explaining the causesthat led him into the undertaking, begins with the inceptionof the sport; shows how it developed, by natural stagesfrom a boy with a ball to eighteen men, ball, bats and bases;gives credit for the first scientific application of system tothe playing of the game to Abner Doubleday, of Coopers-town, N. Y.: treats of the first Base Ball club; shows howrowdyism terrorized the sport in its early days; how gam-bling and drunkenness brought the pastime into disfavorwith the masses, and how early organizations were unableto control the evils that insidiously crept in. He thendraws a series of very forceful pictures of the struggle toeradicate gambling, drunkenness and kindred evils, and showshow the efforts of st
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