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THBFather of Professional Baseball Harry Wright's Multiple Signed Scorebook for his 1881 Boston Red Caps
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- Lot Description
Scorebook owned by one of baseball's most significant pioneers and considered by many to be the "Father of Professional Baseball." Wright is not only credited with designing the baseball uniform but is also the first to patent a baseball scorecard.
Harry Wright's Pocket Base Ball Score Book., No. 2 , copyright 1875, Boston: Harry Wright, 1875. 4.125 x 6.625 in., pink and blue leaves with red leather covers. Inscribed on title page, annotated "No. 5/ Aug. 26-Sept. 30/ 1881 Boston, Mass." The 1881 season was Wright's final season as manager of the Boston franchise then known as the Red Caps, and later the Boston Beaneaters, Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, and today the Atlanta Braves, and this is his personal scoring of the team's games from August 26 to September 30, 1881, the fifth of of five scorebooks of the season, and so includes the final games he managed for the team.
Wright has signed or initialed 18 different times in the box labeled "Scorer" (out of 23 games), including five times with his full name "Harry Wright," twice "H. Wright," and 11 times "H.W." Also included are handwritten final standings, newspaper clippings about the League Championship, and league-related news such as the blacklisting of several players.
Harry Wright is recognized as the "Father of Professional Baseball" for assembling the 1869 Cincinnati Reds, the first fully professional team, for which he also played center field and managed. Numerous other Hall of Famers appear in the scorebook, including Cap Anson, "Old Hoss" Radbourn, John Montgomery Ward, Dan Brouthers, Deacon White, Pud Galvin, Jim O'Rourke, Ned Hanlon, King Kelly, Buck Ewing, Roger Connor, and Timothy Keefe. Also of note is the scoring for the September 3 game against the Worcester Ruby Legs, in which Worcester outfielder Lip Pike, who was the first Jewish professional player, committed three errors in the ninth inning to lose the game, and was immediately suspended and blackballed for suspicion of throwing the game (though Wright's scoring shows only two errors).
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Missing front cover.
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