33 Days to Opening Day

Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 33 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.

Today’s book is 150 Years of Baseball from Publications International, Ltd. Page 33 has a group of pictures from 1875 advertisements and catalogs for Peck & Snyder. The images below were found at 19thCenturyBaseball.com.

This page [at top] from the 1875 Peck & Snyder's Sporting Goods catalog presents the the style of baseball caps of the day. The catalog also had uniforms for amateur teams and "New Styles" [bottom] for the asking.

Put today's entry in a baseball context.