Spalding's Pocket and Club Score Book continues to be the popular score book, and is used by all the leading scorers and base ball reporters. They are adapted for the spectator of ball games, who scores for his own amusement, as well as the official club scorer, who records the minutest detail. By this system, the art of scoring can be acquired in a single game.
Full instructions, with the latest League rules, accompany each book.
The above represents a page in our Score Book, greatly reduced. The diamond in the center of the square represents the base ball field. The home base is at the bottom of diamond, the first base at right side, etc. The spaces in each corner of the square are intended to be used in scoring whatever may have happened to batter or base runner on the line between the two bases forming a boundary of said space.
POCKET. EACH. No. 1. Paper Cover, 7 games $ .10 No. 2. Board Cover, 22 games .25 No. 3. Board Cover, 46 games .50 Score Cards .05 Reporter's Score Book, pocket size, leather bound 1.00
CLUB BOOKS. No. 4. Large Size, 30 games $1.00 No. 5. " " 60 games 1.75 No. 6. " " 90 games 2.50 No. 7. " " 120 games 3.00
Are made of the finest straight grained, well seasoned, second growth Ash Sticks. All timber must be seasoned at least two years, and free from knots or imperfections. They are pronounced superior to anything, in the way of a bat, ever brought out, both as to quality of timber, model and finish. Special attention is called to the "Oriental Finish" put on these bats which enables the batter to get a firm grip and renders the custom of scraping the bat unnecessary. They are made from models of the actual bats used by the most skillful batters in the League and Association. These bats were used last year by all the prominent batters in the leading Leagues and during the World's Series nine-tenths of the bats on the field were WAGON TONGUE BRAND. Beware of cheap imitations, the only genuine WAGON TONGUE BAT has our TRADEMARK; all others are counterfeits. These bats are intended especially for Professional Players, and we urge Club Managers to place their orders as early as possible, to insure a supply, as the quantity made is necessarily limited.