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1894 is the seventeenth annual edition of the work, as the first was issued in the spring of 1876. For the past dozen years the has been the leading publication of its kind in the professional base ball world; and for years past has stood alone as the model hand book of the entire base ball fraternity, amateur and professional alike, as it is the only authorized book of rules and statistics of the professional clubs of the country now issued, as the appended endorsement by the President of the National League proves:

, D. C., March, 1894.

By authority vested in me, I do hereby certify that Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Bros. have been granted the exclusive right to publish the "" for 1894.

N. E. YOUNG, ''Secretary the National League and American Association Professional Base Ball Clubs''.

The interesting features of include not only the official League Club averages for the past season, but also special chapters on the organization of the twelve club league, with editorial comments on the prominent events and occurrences of the League campaign of 1893; the records of the phenomenal contests of the past season, and a special chapter on college base ball, together with the full pitching records of the season, the latter of which have been the feature of the for the past six years. To these are added instructive articles on the points of play in "team work," at the bat, in the field and in base running. Added to is an appendix to the code of players' rules giving the editor's interpretations of the most prominent rules of the code, and especially of the rules which were amended last March, and which interpretations are endorsed by President Young, to whom they were submitted for approval.