Baseball Cyclopedia

Ernest Lanigan compiled the first baseball encyclopedia, The Baseball Cyclopedia, in 1922, which was reprinted with each of its twelve annual supplements in 1988.

As the original publisher advertised on the book's title page, it "comprises a review of Professional Baseball, the history of all Major League Clubs, playing records and unique events, the batting, pitching and base running champions, World's Series' statistics and a carefully arranged alphabetical list of the records of more than 3500 Major League ball players, a feature never before attempted in print."