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Major League Baseball National League (NL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: BAS 541
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides published by Major League Baseball teams in the National League. The annual guides published prior to each MLB season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other...
Dates:
1942-2018
Major League Baseball National League (NL) Team Newsletters Collection
Collection
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
Major League Baseball National League (NL) Team Programs and Scorecards Collection
Collection
Identifier: BAS 611
Scope and Contents
This collection contains more than 1,000 programs and scorecards published by Major League Baseball teams in the National League. Teams published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams,...
Dates:
1876-2007
Major League Baseball National League (NL) Team Yearbooks Collection
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 Indoor Baseball Game
Item — Box: 1
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
Marshall Smelser Research Collection on Babe Ruth
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0023
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....
Dates:
c. 1970-1975
Max Carey Letters
Collection — Box: MSSP DC CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP_0005
Content Description
A group of three personal letters written during a 1914 preseason exhibition tour by Pittsburgh Pirates player Max Carey. The letters are addressed to Carey's wife, Aurelia Behrens Carey and discuss games in Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, as well as, personal matters.
Dates:
1914
Minor League Baseball Team Programs and Scorecards Collection
Collection
Identifier: BAS 630
Scope and Contents
This collection contains more than 2,300 programs and scorecards published by Minor League Baseball teams. Teams published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams, players, coaches, and...
Dates:
1887-2009
National Girls Baseball League Collection
Collection
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
Negro Leagues Pennant Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10079
Scope and Contents
The Negro Leagues Pennant Collection consists of eleven 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...
Dates:
c. 1930s - c. 1940s
Negro Leagues Players Letters Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0012
Content Description
15 letters and cards written and signed by former Negro Leagues players responding to autograph collector Joel Meltzer. The correspondence ranges from small cards to multi-page letters. The authors of many letters discuss the best players they faced, answer other questions, and sometimes provide biographical details. Many letters reference photos or cards signed by the players for Meltzer. None of the letters, however, are accompanied by any signed memorabilia. There are also no envelopes or...
Dates:
c. 1991-95
New York Yankees Sunday Baseball Correspondence Collection
Collection
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
Nineteenth Century Baseball Publications Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10037
Content Description
This collections consists of three scrapbooks (one disbound) with clippings from baseball publications compiled by an unknown person or unknown people during the late nineteenth century. The scrapbooks contain news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived 1887 National Daily Baseball Gazette. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly on the east coast...
Dates:
1870-1887
Ora W. Harvey Letter
Collection
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
Philadelphia Athletics Financial Records
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0021
Content Description
2 volumes of Philadelphia Athletics financial records. First ledger book (36 x 40 cm., 280 leaves, with 20 pages of manuscript entries) records transaction details about 175 players whom the Athletics either contractually controlled or tried out during the 1920, 1921, and 1922 seasons. The printed column headings in this oversized volume read: Date / Player / From Club / Agreement / Class / Cost / Exchange / Remarks. The second ledger book (29 X 44 cm) includes about 80 pages...
Dates:
1920-1922; 1930-1931
Philadelphia Phillies Cash Books Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0009
Content Description
Two cash books detailing the finances of the Philadelphia National League baseball club (the Phillies) from March 1922 to July 1928, and from November 1934 to June 1940. The two books are similar in format. Income and expenditures are itemized in daybook form. A typical in-season month contains nearly 100 lines of identified expenditures, some of which are further annotated. These include payroll (players' salaries are lumped together), travel costs, equipment, gate receipt payouts, fees,...
Dates:
1922-28; 1934-40
Red Smith Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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 — Box: MSSP10083 Box
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
Thomas Fitzpatrick Pacific Coast League Baseball Scorebooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10039
Content Description
This collection consists of 18 baseball fan scorebooks recording information about mostly Pacific Coast League (PCL) games in the 1950s and 1960s. Each of the scorebooks was commercially printed for the purpose of recording baseball statistics and were completed by hand. Some games and scorebooks are accompanied by newspaper clippings and fan newsletters. The vast majority of games involved PCL teams, with the Vancouver Mounties (an affiliate of several different Major League franchises...
Dates:
1958-1969
Tris Speaker Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0006
Content Description
A group of six letters written to recently resigned Cleveland Indians player-manager Tris Speaker in 1926. The correspondence expresses support in the wake of newspaper revelations that former pitcher Emil John "Dutch" Leonard had accused Speaker and Ty Cobb of fixing and betting on a game in 1919. Five of the letters are from fans, and the sixth letter is from former player George Stovall.
Dates:
1926
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