Games, field sports and the crafts people fill their evenings with — the manuals and the memoirs, from Xenophon on horsemanship to Babe Ruth on hitting.
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- A Ball Player’s Career Adrian C. Anson
- A Mirror of the Turf James Glass Bertram
- A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle Juliana Berners
- American Football Walter Camp
- Amid the High Hills Hugh Fraser
- Association Football, and How To Play It John Cameron
- Auction of To-day Milton C. Work
- Babe Ruth’s Own Book of Baseball Babe Ruth
- Base-ball Ballads Grantland Rice
- Billiards William Broadfoot
- Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul A. J. Kenealy
- Boat-Building and Boating Daniel Carter Beard
- Boating W. B. Woodgate
- Book-Plates W. J. Hardy
- Boy Scouts Handbook Boy Scouts of America
- Boys’ Book of Model Boats Raymond F. Yates
- Bridge: Its Principles and Rules of Play J. B. Elwell
- Broad-Sword and Single-Stick R. G. Allanson-Winn & C. Phillipps-Wolley
- Building a Championship Football Team Paul W. Bryant
- Building and Flying an Aeroplane Charles B. Hayward
- Camp and Trail Stewart Edward White
- Carpentry and Woodwork Edwin W. Foster
- Carpentry for BoysJames Slough Zerbe
- Cassell’s Book of In-door Amusements Various
- Chats on Autographs A. M. Broadley
- Chats on Postage Stamps Fred J. Melville
- Chess Fundamentals José Raúl Capablanca
- Chess History and Reminiscences H. E. Bird
- Cricket A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton
- Cycle Rides Round London Charles G. Harper
- Dog Breaking W. N. Hutchinson
- Exercises in Knitting Cornelia Mee
- Favorite Fish and Fishing James A. Henshall
- Fifty Years of Golf Horace G. Hutchinson
- Fisherman’s Luck Henry van Dyke
- Fishing and Shooting Sketches Grover Cleveland
- Fishing in British Columbia Thomas Wilson Lambert
- Fishing with the Fly Charles F. Orvis
- Football Days William H. Edwards
- Foster’s Complete Hoyle R. F. Foster
- Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie H. Bancroft
- Going Afoot Bayard H. Christy
- Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals E. Norman Gardiner
- Ground Tumbling Henry Walter Worth
- Handbook of Summer Athletic Sports Various
- Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous
- Handicraft for Boys A. Frederick Collins
- Hippodrome Skating Book Charlotte Oelschlager
- History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 John Lawrence O’Connor
- Home-Made Toy Motors Alfred Powell Morgan
- How to Camp Out John M. Gould
- How to Get Strong and How to Stay So William Blaikie
- How to Make Sock Toys Edna Clapper
- Hunting Dogs Oliver Hartley
- Hunting Sketches Anthony Trollope
- Illustrated Horse Breaking M. Horace Hayes
- Kitecraft and Kite Tournaments Charles M. Miller
- Knitting, Crochet, and Netting Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière
- Knots, Splices and Rope Work A. Hyatt Verrill
- Knuckles and Gloves Bohun Lynch
- Lady Cadogan’s Illustrated Games of Solitaire Adelaide Cadogan
- Lines in Pleasant Places William Senior
- Little Wars H. G. Wells
- Magic Ellis Stanyon
- Making Tin Can Toys Edward Thatcher
- Massage & Exercises Combined Albrecht Jensen
- Model Aeroplanes F. J. Camm
- Modern Billiards Benjamin Garno
- Motor Camping J. C. Long & John D. Long
- Mountain Craft Geoffrey Winthrop Young
- Mr. Punch’s Book of Sport Various
- My Knitting Book Miss Lambert
- New Method of Horsemanship François Baucher
- Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs P. H. Ditchfield
- On Horsemanship Xenophon
- Pedestrianism Walter Thom
- Pitching in a Pinch Christy Mathewson
- Pleasures of the Telescope Garrett P. Serviss
- Riding and Driving for Women Belle Beach
- Riding Recollections G. J. Whyte-Melville
- Rowing R. C. Lehmann
- Rustic Carpentry Various
- Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
- Secrets of the Sword Baron de Bazancourt
- Ski-Runs in the High Alps F. F. Roget
- Sleight of Hand Edwin Sachs
- Sporting Dogs Frank Townend Barton
- Stamp Collecting as a Pastime Edward J. Nankivell
- Steel Traps A. R. Harding
- Strength and How to Obtain It Eugen Sandow
- Studies in the Art of Rat-catching H. C. Barkley
- Swimming Scientifically Taught Frank Eugen Dalton
- Tales of Fishes Zane Grey
- The American HorsewomanElizabeth Karr
- The Apiary Alfred Neighbour
- The Art of Fencing Monsieur L’Abbat
- The Art of Lawn Tennis William T. Tilden
- The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri Taymur Mirza
- The Blue Book of Chess Howard Staunton
- The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft Daniel Carter Beard
- The Book of Sports William Martin
- The Book of the Sailboat A. Hyatt Verrill
- The Compleat Angler Izaak Walton
- The Complete English Wing Shot G. T. Teasdale-Buckell
- The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon
- The Cricket Field James Pycroft
- The Cross Word Puzzle Book: Second Series Various
- The Devil’s Picture-Books Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer
- The Eton College Hunt Anthony Crossley
- The Exploits and Triumphs of Paul Morphy Frederick Milnes Edge
- The Game of Go Arthur Smith
- The Golf Courses of the British Isles Bernard Darwin
- The Horse and His Rider Francis Bond Head
- The Horsewoman Alice M. Hayes
- The Ladies’ Work-Book Anonymous
- The Magician’s Own Book George Arnold & Frank Cahill
- The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It Walter Winans
- The Pleasures of Collecting Gardner C. Teall
- The Romance of Book-Collecting J. Herbert Slater
- The School of Recreation R. H.
- The Spirit of the Links Henry Leach
- The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Joseph Strutt
- The Sportsman Xenophon
- The Teesdale Angler R. Lakeland
- The Young Lady’s Equestrian Manual Anonymous
- Toy-Making at Home Morley Adams
- Tracks and Tracking Josef Brunner
- Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book Various
- Walker’s Manly Exercises Donald Walker
- What Shall We Do Now? Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Winter Sports in Switzerland E. F. Benson
- Wood-working for Beginners Charles G. Wheeler
- Woodcraft E. H. Kreps
- Wrestling and Wrestlers Jacob Robinson & Sidney Gilpin