The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals
One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's. A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.
Local ID: 3725
Estimated Value: $3,000
| Title: | Porter’s Spirit of the Times |
| Category: | Sports, Baseball |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 1-26 |
| Date: | September 1857 – February 1858 |
| Published in: | New York, NY |
| Volume 3 number 2 contains first image of baseball. On original copperplate engraving of a game at Elysian Field in Hoboken, NJ. There are purported earlier images in books but this is the first image of the “New York Game,” the direct descendant of modern day baseball. | |