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Message:: [QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 4123230, member: 7826"]Apologies for failing to notice the earlier hashtag referral (thanks, INH). Actually, though, we don't have much of anything to tell about the baseball material -- much of it is some pretty obscure and specialized local history, and any new  documentation of 19th Century amateur and semi-pro ball would be a significant addition to those fragmentary records -- but for sure there are plenty of baseball memorabilia collectors who would be very keen on obtaining the books and ephemera in mforder's cache.  Fig, good eye spotting that nine-years-old Mile High auction.  We're somewhat surprised that lot sold for as low a price as it did.  But "ya never know at auction" -- timing is everything.  We think mforder's stuff would do a little better now. The Jacob C Morse stuff in Item #21 is intriguing for us since it might maybe possibly perhaps be related to a recent major discovery in our tiny niche of antique tabletop baseball games (additional footnote:  Morse is the author of the 1888 volume, Sphere and Ash: The History of Baseball).  And by the way, mforder, yes, Open Range is the best western made in at least the last thirty years or more.[/QUOTE]