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All-American Girls Baseball League Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0014
Abstract

A substantial collection of manuscript material, photographs, and printed matter relating to the All-American Girls Baseball League, a women's professional league active in the American Midwest from 1943 to 1954. Included is a set of nine loose-leaf notebooks compiled by South Bend Blue Sox executive Harold T. Dailey, comprising a kind of documentary history of the league.

Dates: 1943-2000; Majority of material found in 1943-1954

American League Baseball Team Newsletters

 Collection
Identifier: BAS 590
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Major League Baseball team fan newsletters published by teams in the American League. The newsletters promoted interest in the clubs, and each newsletter typically contained brief stories about players, accounts of recent games, details for upcoming games, news about ballpark promotions, or other information about the team. Most newsletters also contained photographs, cartoons, or other images. Some newsletters included advertisments. Materials include published...
Dates: 1946-1970

Baseball Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 7502
Scope and Contents

An accumulation of around 400 different pieces of published sheet music relating to baseball. The relationship may reside in the music's title or lyrics, in the sheet's cover graphics, or in some other identification with the game. Examples bear copyright dates ranging from 1860 to 1992. Baseball themed sheet music was especially common in the half-decade before World War I.

Dates: 1860-1992

Birmingham Black Barons records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0001
Abstract

A collection of records, mostly financial, of the Birmingham (Alabama) Black Barons Negro Leagues professional baseball club. The most significant item in the collection is a manuscript cash book, showing the club's financial accounts with each of its players for the seasons 1926 through 1930.

Dates: 1923-1930

Curt Flood Legal Documents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10008
Scope and Contents This small collection consists of legal documents and correspondence related to Curt Flood’s lawsuit, Flood v. Kuhn against Major League baseball’s reserve clause in the early 1970s. The legal documents include official court papers from the Appellate Court case in the Second Circuit of Appeals (1971) and the Supreme Court decision (1972) against Flood. The correspondence largely consists of letters to and from the law firms Arnold & Porter and Wilkie, Farr, &...
Dates: 1970 - 1971

Jim Newton Collection on Pete Rose

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0017
Abstract

A collection of materials on the Pete Rose gambling investigation of 1989, assembled by journalist Jim Newton of the Fort Hamilton (OH) Press. The collection consists primarily of photocopied documents and news clips. Included is a copy of the Dowd Report (Major League Baseball's investigation into Rose's activities) with its many attendant volumes of exhibits.

Dates: 1978-1990; Majority of material found in 1989

Johnny Evers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0015
Abstract

A small collection of manuscripts, photographs, printed matter, and realia belonging to Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers (1881-1947). Much of the material relates to the exhibition games played in Europe in 1924 by the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox, a series in which Evers participated as White Sox manager.

Dates: 1906-1976

League Parlor Baseball Game

 Item
Identifier: EPH 5054
Scope and Contents

Baseball board game with abacus-style scorekeeping system. Pieces missing.

Dates: circa 1884

"Lou" Gehrig's Official Plaball Junior

 Item
Identifier: EPH 5056
Scope and Contents

One game manufactured by Johnson Store Equipment Co. Baseball board game. Pieces missing.

Dates: circa 1932

Major League Baseball All-Star Game Programs

 Collection
Identifier: BAS 625
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Major League Baseball All-Star game programs. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams from the two leagues. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game, stories about the current season, information about team owners or league officials, and advertisements. The programs tend to get longer and more substantial through the years. Formats include programs.

Dates: 1937 - 2009

Major League Baseball American League (AL) Team Yearbooks

 Collection
Identifier: BAS 570
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Major League Baseball annual team yearbooks published by American League clubs. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements. Materials include annual team yearbooks.

Dates: 1948-2001

Major League Baseball National League (NL) Team Yearbooks

 Collection
Identifier: BAS 571
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Major League Baseball annual team yearbooks published by National League clubs. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements. Materials include annual team yearbooks.

Dates: 1946-2001

Major League Baseball World Series Programs and Scorecards

 Collection
Identifier: BAS 620
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Major League Baseball World Series game programs and scorecards. The World Series programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the World Series. Some programs also include pictures and information about team managers, team owners, other team personnel, league officials, historical articles, information about the host city, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through...
Dates: 1911 - 2010

Major League Indoor Baseball Game

 Item
Identifier: EPH 5055
Scope and Contents

One game manufactured by Philadelphia Game Manufacturing Co. Players choose a baseball team and play by spinning the dial to move players around the bases throughout the innings.

Dates: circa 1913

National Girls Baseball League Collection

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Identifier: MSSP 10071
Scope and Contents The collection contains material related to the Chicago-based National Girls Baseball League, a professional league that rivaled the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. The collection chiefly consists of copies of the official magazine/program of the National Girls Baseball League published under various titles from 1949 to 1953 by Publishers, Inc. (1949) and by Merrell Features (1950-1953). The programs typically contain pictures, biographies, articles, and statistics about the...
Dates: 1949 - 1953

National League Baseball Team Newsletters

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Identifier: BAS 591
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Major League Baseball team fan newsletters published by teams in the National League. The newsletters promoted interest in the clubs, and each newsletter typically contained brief stories about players, accounts of recent games, details for upcoming games, news about ballpark promotions, or other information about the team. Most newsletters also contained photographs, cartoons, or other images. Some newsletters included advertisments. Materials include published...
Dates: 1936-1972

Negro Leagues Pennant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10079
Scope and Contents The Negro Leagues Pennant Collection consists of nine felt pennants for African American baseball teams that played in the organized Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 1940s. The teams represented in the collection are the Homestead Grays, two examples, with one version spelled as “Greys”, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cuban Stars, the Baltimore Elite Giants, the Newark Eagles, and the Philadelphia Stars. The pennants contain no information about their origin or date of creation....
Dates: c. 1930s - c. 1940s

New York Yankees Sunday Baseball Correspondence Collection

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Identifier: MSSP 0010
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the New York Yankees' efforts to encourage state legislation (primarily the 1918 Lawson Bill) permitting Sunday baseball in New York state. Many of the letters are directed to Yankees president Jacob Ruppert by politicians responding to the club's letter asking, “Will you, if elected, favor an amendment of the Penal Code which will permit the citizens to enjoy professional base ball and other forms of harmless...
Dates: 1915 - 1928; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Ora W. Harvey Letter

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5026
Abstract

A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.

Dates: 15 April 1863

Red Smith Papers

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Identifier: MSSP 10061
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...
Dates: 1888 - 2010; Majority of material found in 1945-1982

Richard K. Fox Baseball Team (Fair Haven, New Jersey) Collection

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Identifier: MSSP 10065
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 16 broadsides and advertising fliers promoting baseball games of the amateur Richard K. Fox Baseball Team during the 1909 season. The Richard K. Fox Baseball Team represented Fair Haven in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In addition to information about games and schedules, most broadsides include a picture of a player or another image related to the team, as well as humorous text about the Richard K. Fox Baseball Team, their opponents, their fans, or other topics....
Dates: 1909 - 1910

The Jackie Robinson Doll (13-inch Composition Doll)

 Item
Identifier: MSSP 10083
Scope and Contents One Jackie Robinson doll wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The doll is a 13-inch tall, fully jointed composition doll, molded with painted hair and painted facial features. The doll is wearing a blue Brooklyn Dodgers hat with with a white “B” logo, a blue warm-up jacket that reads “Dodgers” in white script, a gray jersey that reads “Dodgers” in blue script on the front and the number “42” in blue on the back, gray pants, blue socks, and black shoes with laces. Original...
Dates: 1950

West Philadelphia Base Ball Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0002
Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of letters addressed to the West Philadelphia Base Ball Club during the season of 1867 with a few letters from 1866. Many items are challenge letters or letters otherwise scheduling matches. There is also a 6-page letter from the Excelsior Base Ball Club of Milford, Delaware, inquiring about a player named Fisher, who pitched for the West Philadelphia Base Ball Club and another team during the 1867 season. Most of the correspondents are from the...
Dates: 1866-09-01 - 1867-09-07