Author: MARCIN, Joe, ROEWE, Chris, WIGGE, Larry, and VICKREY, Larry (editors)
Title: Official Baseball Guide for 1976
Description: St. Louis, The Sporting News, 1976. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 536pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers. Handsome first edition of this thick, detailed annual guide, containing "Major and Minor League Averages * Complete Play-by-Play Coverage of World Series and All-Star Game" and a staggering gathering of statistics. This copy with fine autograph addition: Tipped to the upper edge of the color suit-and-tie portrait of baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn is a 3" X 5/8" slip signed boldly and hastily by Kuhn. Kuhn (1926-2007) was the sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball (1969-84) and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. .

Keywords: Sports


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