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In 1941, the American Sports Publishing Company, publishers of the
Spalding Athletic Library, was sold to
A.S. Barnes. The Spalding Athletic
Library provided books for over 30
different sports since 1892. The Barnes
Dollar Sports Library published books
on baseball, football, basketball, and
other major sports. The name was
changed to The Barnes Sport Library
when the price went up from a dollar.
By the 1950s, A.S. Barnes & Company
became the major publisher of sports
reference books.
"Clowning Through Baseball" by Al
Schacht was published by A.S. Barnes &
Company in 1941. Grammar and Adjectives
by Murray Goodman, Forward by John
Kieran, and Illustrated by Willard
Mullin. Personal note: "Dedicated to My Mother who
takes all the blame"
Al Schacht says he was not born into baseball, but that baseball was born
in him. This humorous story of his life
is actually a history of the last
thirty-five years of baseball. Through
the pages of this book walk the great
baseball figures of the past and
present. Incidents and stories about
them are told in the author's
inimitable style. Only Al Schacht could
bring you this warm, humorous tale of
ball player's lives, and if you love
baseball as 50,000,000 others do, this
book will provide you with many hours
of solid entertainment.
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