Scope and Content Correspondence with Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, and others; diaries, financial records, legal documents, manuscripts, memoranda, research and writing notes, sheet music, teaching material, booklets, and clippings; concerning his career as a history professor, his travels, his political activities, his research, his advice to the administration of Cardinal Newman College, and his lifelong interest in baseball. Also the manuscript of his book The Winning of Independence...

Content Description Research notes and other materials accumulated by Marshall Smelser while writing his 1975 biography of Babe Ruth, The Life That Ruth Built. Included are 1) a file of approximately 1,500 index cards, chronologically arranged, indicating the news and feature stories on Ruth that appeared in the New York Times , 1914-1969; 2) a file of approximately 6,500 index cards of facts and observations pertaining to Ruth, with sources, arranged by chapter (i....