Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Cleveland Indians Financial Records
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0022
Content Description
6 volumes of Cleveland Indians financial records. Five of the six volumes in this group (for 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1952) are Indians payroll ledgers, with figures entered for each semi-monthly pay period. The hundreds of named employees include players, office workers, scouts, ground crew, ushers, ticket takers, and police. Each volume contains about 200 pages of content, plus inserts; pages measure around 35 x 42 cm. Four of the five volumes are disbound. The sixth volume...
Dates:
1940-1952
Letters to Joe Jackson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0019
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 127 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is...
Dates:
1932-2004; Majority of material found within 1932-1957
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
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
Official Knute Rockne Football Game and World Series Baseball Game in combination with Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football and Baseball
Item
Identifier: ORMG
Scope and Contents
The double-sided wooden board game features Knute Rockne’s Official Football Game and the Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football on one side, and the Official World Series Baseball Game and the Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Baseball on the other side.The football game board features images and facsimile autographs of Knute Rockne and Graham McNamee. The baseball game board features two images of Graham McNamee with a radio microphone and features the text,...
Dates:
1931
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives