_New York American_:--"'America's National Game' tells for the first time the history of the national game of base ball." _Portland Oregonian_:--"The book is of rare interest and has such personal value in the story line that one hardly knows where to begin in making quotations from it--all the stories told are so admirable." JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New York:--"It's a great book." REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:--"No one in America is better qualified to talk of base ball, from its inception to its present greatness, than A.G. Spalding." WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago _American_:--"We have found much enjoyment in reading the book, and it is very valuable in our work." W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:--"I have read the book with great pleasure and it produced a vivid reminiscence of the striking events in base ball, so full of interest to all lovers of the game." JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) _Argus-Advocate_, and ex-President Amateur Athletic Union:--"I want to express my gratitude, as a humble follower of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work." JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, Boston, Mass.:--"I have read the book with great interest and it certainly is a valuable compilation of facts relating to the history of base ball, the great national game of America. I prize it very highly." WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, Mass.:--"I think 'America's National Game' is not only intensely interesting but most valuable, as giving the history of the game. Better still, my nine year old boy is looking forward to the time when he can get it away from me." GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic Union:--"Not only as a historical sketch of this great national game, but also as a technical dissertation on base ball as it was and is, this book will not only be of interest but of benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in sport--and what American is not interested in sport?--and being interested in sport, chiefly in base ball." EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States:--"It is very seldom that any history of any sport or anything pertaining to athletics approaches the interest with which one reads a popular work of fiction, but I can truthfully say that I have read the story of the great national game with as much interest as I have read any recent work of fiction." THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San Francisco:--"'America's National Game' contains matter on the origin and development of base ball--the greatest game ever devised by man--that will be of the utmost interest to the base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every English speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of A.G. Spalding to the end of time." SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE Thirty-seventh Year