Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Dark-Town Battery Mechanical Baseball Bank
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSSP 10098
Scope and Contents
Cast iron mechanical bank featuring stereotypical representations of three African American baseball players. The metal bank includes a pitcher, a batter, and a catcher all with moveable parts. The fully-functioning spring-loaded bank operates by placing a coin in a slot in the pitcher’s hand and rotating the pitcher’s arm backwards (which also bows the pitcher’s head) to set the arm. Pressing a lever behind the catcher, causes the pitcher to “throw” the coin, the batter to swing the bat,...
Dates:
c. 1888
League Parlor Baseball Game
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 00000039199526]
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 — Box 1: [Barcode: 00000039201579]
Identifier: EPH 5056
Scope and Contents
One game manufactured by Johnson Store Equipment Co. Baseball board game. Pieces missing.
Dates:
circa 1932
Major League Indoor Baseball Game
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 00000039199534]
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
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 contains news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived National Daily Baseball Gazette from the spring of 1887. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly...
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
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