Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 689
Estimate: £300/500
‘Chadwick’s American Cricket Manual. Also the Game of Lacrosse’. Henry Chadwick. New York. Robert. M de Witt, 1873. First edition. 128pp[4]. Original pictorial boards, some wear to board edges and extremities otherwise in good condition. A scarce item on early American cricket. Padwick 411 & 4037
Henry Chadwick is credited with devising the baseball box score, adapting it from a cricket scorecard. The book includes the averages of the leading American clubs and the scores of the principal international matches of 1859, 1868 and 1872