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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
Gene Tunney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates:
1858 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945
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- Baseball -- South Bend (Ind.) -- History 1
- Baseball for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
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- Boxing -- History 1
- Calendars (documents by form) 1
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- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1
- Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
- Dailey, Harold T. 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 1
- Gimbel, Bernard F., 1885-1966 1
- Grant, Chet, 1892- 1
- Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 1908-1993 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Knudsen, William S., 1879-1948 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 1
- South Bend Blue Sox (Baseball team) 1
- Sullivan, Ed, 1901-1974 1
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
- Tunney, Gene, 1897-1978 1
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