Sportswriters
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Vincent Taylor Scrapbook
Item — Box MSSP9000: [Barcode: 00000039204615]
Identifier: MSSP_9000
Content Description
Scrapbook compiled by Arthur Vincent Taylor, which includes manuscripts, correspondence clippings, ephemera, and other material. The content in the scrapbook recounts events throughout his life from high school to retirement. The scrapbook includes considerable material about his years at Williams College, including his participation in sports; his high school teaching career in Newark, New Jersey; his adult amateur golfing; and his sportswriting, especially about fishing and golf....
Dates:
1878-1936
Joe Doyle Papers
Fonds
Identifier: DOY
Scope and Content
Personal files, 1950s-2000s; sports files, bulk 1970s- 1990s; Ara Parseghian column ghostwriting files, 1960s and 1980s; Notre Dame football files, bulk 1950s-1970s; newspaper clippings of Doyle articles, March-April 1962, April 1967, and August-November 1971; football game play-by-play notes, 1957-1980; reporter's notebooks, ca. 2000s; loose manuscripts, including several book-length manuscripts by other authors; many unfiled papers and some unlabeled folders and envelopes; and photographs...
Dates:
1957-2000s.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Joe Wilman Bowling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10035
Content Description
The Joe Wilman Bowling Papers consists of material collected by Hall of Fame professional bowler, bowling writer, and bowling commentator Joe Wilman (1905-1969). 15 scrapbooks document Wilman's bowling career from 1920 through 1957. The earlier scrapbooks also contain information about Wilman's baseball and boxing careers. The scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper and magazine clippings, as well as, smaller amounts of ephemera, photographs, and correspondence. Eight boxes of materials document...
Dates:
1906-1970
Nat Fleischer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2003
Scope and Contents
The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...
Dates:
circa 1910-1967
Stanley Weston Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10062
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Stanley Weston, sportswriter and owner of The Ring Magazine. The bulk of the collection is a series of subject files assembled by Weston on over two thousand boxers and boxing-related subjects. Also included is an incomplete run of clippings on boxers from the 1950s. Weston’s papers also include research files on various sports, articles he authored, and magazine covers he designed. Finally, also...
Dates:
1883 - 2003
Tommy Armour and Herb Graffis Golf Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10031
Content Description
This collection consists of manuscript drafts of articles, columns, and a book about about golf by longtime collaborators golfer Tommy Armour (1896-1968) and sportswriter Herb Graffis (1893-1989). The bulk of the items relate to a regular golfing column titled, "Play Better Golf" that ran for many years under Armour's byline in the Chicago Tribune. In addition to typescript drafts, the materials include publication schedules and some correspondence between...
Dates:
1933; 1957-1968; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1968