Perhaps the most interesting and attractive element of the vintage baseball equipment catalogs are the uniform swatches attached to the interior pages. Various colors and shades pinstripes and patterns provide a window into the styles of the era. Imagining the suffocating prickly sandpaper of their "light weight material" swaddling your body on a sunny July afternoon is more than this writer can handle. Digest-sized Spalding catalog from 1916 well-worn with significant staining and some paper loss. The interior pages are outstanding in terms of content however the aforementioned swatch samples coupling with images of a fantastic selection of players including A. G. Spalding and Christy Mathewson.