This is a 24 page pamphlet titled "Baseball Fundamentals" written by Leslie Mann and published by the United States Amateur Baseball Association sometime in the 1930s. Leslie Mann was the National director of the US Amateur Baseball Association at the time. Pamphlet talks about the Association and how Baseball builds character, including Avery Brundage's "Code of Ideas." The rest of the Pamphlet uses photographs & diagrams to lay out the fundamentals of baseball, including batting, bunting, sliding, and base running. The information comes from slides and a larger coaching/training program developed by Leslie Mann to train and coach baseball players and coaches that he developed in the 1920s.
Mann graduated from the International YMCA College, now Springfield College, in 1925. He planned to graduate with the class of 1914, however he took classes part time for several years so that he could play professional baseball. He played professionally for 19 years with Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New York. At Springfield, he was the first freshman to make the varsity football team and was nominated for All-American honors, playing as a halfback on the field. Les Mann was the varsity baseball and basketball coach at Springfield in the mid-twenties. He later formed the first baseball school in the nation, and directed the first U.S. All-American baseball team in 1935. He was inducted into the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame on November 4, 1972.
A dark blue heavy cardboard cover (front and back) is part of this pamphlet. Do not know if it was added before or after publication. No markings are on any of the sides. It was felt that if this was digitized that it would make this document harder to use, so it was decided that it would not be digitized. Please note that this is a part of the physical object; At the time this object was digitized it had not been given a call number or catalog record.
