al League
Cotton States League
Eastern Association
Illinois-Missouri League
Indiana-Illinois-Iowa League
International League
Kentucky-Ind.-Tenn. League
Michigan State League
"Mink" League
New York State League
New England League
Nebraska State League
North Carolina League
Northwestern League
Ohio and Pennsylvania League
Ohio State League
Pacific Coast League
South Atlantic League
Southeastern League
Southern Association
Southern Michigan Association
Texas League
Tri-State League
Union Association
Virginia League
Western Canada League
Western League

New Faces in the Old League

Notes

Schedules--
American League
International League
National League
Northwestern League
Southern Michigan
Texas League

The Spalding Base Ball Hall of Fame

The World's Series of 1912

The Umpires

NOTICE--To give adequate representation to College and School Base Ball
Teams, which heretofore has not been possible in the Guide owing to lack
of room, "Spalding's Official Collegiate Base Ball Annual" will be
issued in February. It will contain complete college records, pictures
and information exclusively pertaining to College Base Ball. Price 10
cents.

INTRODUCTION

In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE for the
season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the season of 1912,
and the period which followed its completion, have been filled, with a
great deal of unusual and uncommon vicissitude.

In the first place the personnel of the National League, the oldest Base
Ball organization in the world, has been greatly changed by reason of
death and purchase of one franchise. New owners have brought new faces
into the game, and when the National League starts on this year's
campaign there will be some younger but equally as ambitious men at the
heads of some of the clubs.

The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an incident of
interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base Ball "fans" of
this day what happened when another organization was perfected in the
past. For this organization it may be said that the members promise that
it will be their object to bring about better deportment on the part of
their own associates and that they will work their best for the
advancement of Base Ball from a professional standpoint. If they do this
they will be of benefit to the sport. If they work fro