period, the book being of special value, alike to the amateur class of
the base ball fraternity, as to the class of professional exemplars of
the game.

AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.

* * * * *

WASHINGTON, D. C, March, 1895.

By authority vested in me, I do hereby certify that Messrs.
A. G. Spalding & Bros, have been granted the _exclusive_ right
to publish the "OFFICIAL LEAGUE BOOK" for 1895.

N. E. YOUNG,
Secretary of the National League and American Association of Professional
Base Ball Clubs.

[Illustration A.G. Mills; N.E. Young; Wahulbert--The Three Presidents]
[Illustration: Baltimore Base Ball Club. Champions of 1894.]
[Illustration]
[Illustration: New York Base Ball Club, '94.]




INTRODUCTION.

The decade of the nineties in League history bids fair to surpass, in