Baseball Cyclopedia

<p> Ernest J. Lanigan was the nephew of <I>Sporting News</I> founder Al Spink and one of three men in his immediate family to gain acclaim as a newspaperman. As sports editor for the <I>New York Press</I> and official scorer for a handful of World Series, he was the premier statistician of his day.</p><p> Lanigan compiled the first baseball encyclopedia in 1922, and it is reprinted here with each of its twelve annual supplements. As the original publishe