Provides a reference work that covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game, May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team, through the 1900 season. This book presents complete team rosters, statistics, and detailed player, manager, and umpire information.

The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades.