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This 1873 Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Guide is in excellent condition, with all pages intact in spite of minimal wear along the edges, indicating its ability to last throughout time. Its pages include glimpses into baseball's early days, including freshly adopted regulations, an innovative scoring system, player instructions, guidelines for forming new clubs, and detailed base-ball averages from the past season. These manuals, published annually from 1860 to 1881, were the invention of Henry Chadwick, popularly regarded as the "Father of Baseball." Chadwick's literary abilities resulted in important modifications and advances to baseball box scores and statistics, influencing how we perceive and evaluate the game today. For collectors, this guide offers an uncommon chance to possess a piece of baseball history, providing a fascinating view.