The Times-Journal · Malvern, Arkansas · 1906

Everything from How to Bat to How to Organize a League, ten cents each

Spalding's mail-order library covered the entire game at a dime a booklet. Number 231 alone promised coaching, captaining, managing, umpiring and organizing a league, still for ten cents.

Spalding’s Encyclopedia of Base Ball ran booklet by booklet: How to Bat, How to Play the Outfield, one number apiece for first, second, third and shortstop, How to Catch, How to Pitch, How to Run the Bases. Price by mail, ten cents each.

The bargain of the page is No. 231, which packed How to Coach, How to Captain a Team, How to Manage a Team, How to Umpire and How to Organize a League into a single dime. Below it sits the Official Base Ball Guide for 1906, “the authority consulted on all disputed points,” with the new rules and photographs of hundreds of teams.

This ran in a weekly paper in Malvern, Arkansas, which says everything about how far A. G. Spalding & Bros. of New York and Chicago figured a dime could travel.