1860s

Further Reading

• Bruce S. Allardice: "Baseball 1858-65: By the Numbers", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 49, Nr. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 85-90."
• Bruce Allardice: "Runs, Runs, and More Runs: Pre-Professional Baseball, by the Numbers", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 50, Number 2 (Fall 2021), pp. 124-129.
• Jean-Pierre Caillault: The Complete New York Clipper Baseball Biographies: More Than 800 Sketches of Players, Managers, Owners, Umpires, Reporters and Others, 1859-1903, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2009.
• George B. Kirsch: Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War, Princeton University press, Princeton, NJ, 2007.
• Peter Morris: But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Chicago, IL, 2008.
• Peter Morris et al.: Base Ball Pioneers 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players who Spread the Sport Nationwide, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2012. ISBN 0786468432
• Peter Morris et al.: Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7430-1
• William J. Ryczek: When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006 (originally published in 1998).
• William J. Ryczek: Baseball's First Inning: A History of the National Pastime Through the Civil War, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2009.
• Robert Tholkes: ""Country" Base Ball in the Boom of 1866: A Safari Through Primary Sources", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 50, Number 2 (Fall 2021), pp. 111-123.