Henry Chadwick once wrote, "Thanks to Base Ball--the entering wedge of the great reformation which has since taken place--we have been transformed into quite another people, and, as we never do things by halves, but generally rush into furors and...

The very first Robert Edward Auctions catalog off the presses on April 5 will be presented to The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, for their library, as is the long-standing tradition. The following day, however, ten thousand of the...