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Booklets: Other

"MY PAL" Basket Ball Scouting 1936
100 All Purpose Basketball Drills 1955
100 Drills For Teaching Fundamentals 1937
1934-35 Suz Sager's Sportsmanship
A Handbook for Women A.P.E.A 1929
Argentina: Basketball 1946
Austrailia: Basket Ball 1958
Basket Ball and Net Ball 3rd ed. 1922-23
Basketball - Eastern League Pros 1931
Basketball Fundamentals 1938
Basketball Was Born Here 1959
Basketball Was Born Here 1990
Basketball's Origins 1976
Clair Bee's Winning Plays 1939
Coaching and Playing Girls' Basketball 1950
Collegiate Basket Ball Rules Women 1908
English Schools B-Ball Handbook 1961-62
English: Game of Net-Ball How to Play It 1925
English:Basket Ball and Net Ball 2nd ed. 1921
France: Code De Basket-Ball 1925
France: Le Basket-Ball 1925
Fundamentals of Basketball Naismith 1930
Hoop Ball 1899
How to Improve Your Basketball 1952

My Most Recent Blogs

Story-paper Tabloids - Feb. 28, 2017

You may be familiar with the term pulp, used to describe some of the older, cheaply made periodicals from many years ago. However, the term "story-paper tabloid" may not be as common. Story-paper tabloids are similar to pulps in the low quality of the materials used, but differ in their format and size. Produced using cheat wood pulp paper, they ...

Seldom seen Clark Candy Cards! - June 19, 2016

Recently, I was lucky enough to find 10 of the 16 cards from the 1954 Clark Candy basketball set. These cards are quite rare and seldom seen, even by advanced basketball collectors.

Rare Album Postcard Acquired - March 1, 2016

Recently, I came across a surprising find - the 1928 Cuban Aguilitas Album Redemption postcard. When I've seen these in the past, they have always been baseball related. This one is basketball themed and shows the same image as card #397, the HNOS Maristas. The seller of this item said he found it in Cuba three decades ago. It is a nice and une...

The rarest card ever in vintage basketball - C.A. Briggs - Feb. 7, 2016

On January 20, 2016, the 1933 C.A. Briggs card was added to the VintageBasketball.com collection. I am excited to share info about this card with all of you. While there are many rare items in our hobby, speaking specifically about cards, this is probably at the very top of the list in terms of rarity. Take a few minutes to read a little more a...

My Favorite Items

1933 C.A. Briggs Basketball
B33 Basket Ball Flannels 1912
Basket Ball Rules for 1893
Hamilton King L5 Leather 1912
Ken-Wel Advertising 1920
Naismith's Phog Allen Portrait Print 1936
Spalding Men - 1896
Spalding Men - 1899/1900
Spalding Women - 1901