Play Ball with Kellogg's; How to Play Baseball and Facts for Fans by Lew Fonseca - 1930

Little technical library. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (baseball, how to, pitch) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Chicago: Little Technical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. DJ has some moderate wear, creasing, chipping, a tear on the front, and a small missing piece at the bottom right corner. Spine is beginning to crack at a few signatures. .

Ziff Davis Publishing Company, 1942-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Staining to covers, mostly front cover. Lightly read. No markings in book. Binding is fine. B&W photos. 107pp.

Little Technical Library. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1942. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 107 pp; Binding is slightly cocked, light foxing on fore edges, binding is cracked in the middle but still secure, no loose pages. DJ has some soiling and several closed tears on hinges and fore edges, small chip at top of DJ spine. .

This first and second baseman debuted in 1921 with the Cincinnati Reds (until 1924), playing also for the Philadelphia Phillies (1925), Cleveland Indians (1927-31) and Chicago White Sox (1931-33); he plays himself in the 1927 silent comedy "Slide, Kelly, Slide," a film that supposedly got him interested in using film footage to analyze baseball games and players, which practice he pioneered as manager of the White Sox (1932-34). Bold "Best wishes / From" and signature in blue fineline, heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., n.y. Fine. A nice later life example.

Fonseca played first and second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1921-24), Philadelphia Phillies (1925), Cleveland Indians (1927-31) and Chicago White Sox (1931-33, manager 1932-34); Haas played center field for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), Philadelphia Athletics (1928-32, 1938) and Chicago White Sox (1933-37); Schang played catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1913-17, 1930), Boston Red Sox (1918-20), New York Yankees (1921-25), St. Louis Browns (1926-29) and Detroit Tigers (1931); Baseball Hall of Famer Lloyd Waner played center field for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1927-41, 1944-45) with several one-year WW2 gigs with the Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies; and his older brother, Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Waner, played right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1926-39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1941, 1943-44), Boston Braves (1941-42) and New York Yankees (1944-45). Large and bold signatures of these five players on a 3½" X 6" pale blue sheet, n.p., n.y. [likely 1930]. Near fine.… Read More