100 Years of Baseball The Intimate and Dramatic Story of Modern Baseball from the Game's Beginnings Up to the Present Day

New York, NY: Bartholomew House, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and tears, along with noticeable toning / fading to the spine and spine joints. "From 1959 until his death, he was the historian at the Baseball Hall of Fame, succeeding Ernest Lanigan. In that capacity, and with his substantial collection of biographical information on ballplayers (continuing Lanigan's work) , he had a great deal of input to the first edition of the famous MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia which was published in the same year he died. Although Allen had been inspired as a youth by his Hall of Fame predecessor's Baseball Cyclopedia, he was not the "figger filbert" that Lanigan was. However, they did share a common interest in the personal stories of the ballplayers. " (from Wikipedia) .