Excerpt from Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1906: Containing Complete List of American Best on Records; Official Report of Athletics at Lewis and Clark Exposition This is the twelfth annual edition Oi Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac, which is to-day the only recognized Amateur Athletic Almanac published in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.