Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States

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...

Scope and Contents Financial records related to the Detroit Tigers American League professional baseball team. Three bound accounting ledgers document the business operation of the Detroit Base Ball and Amusement Company and its successor the Detroit Base Ball Company. Entries in the ledgers record income and expenses for a wide variety of transactions, including player salaries, spring training trips, world series games, routine business matters, and other subjects. Among the notable names in the ledgers are...

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Lawrence A. Bucynski Baseball Correspondence includes nine pieces of correspondence from the summer of 1949 between baseball player Lawrence Bucynski, George Trautman, the President of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, and the Abbeville (Louisiana) Athletics of the minor Evangeline League. The letters discuss a salary dispute between Bucynski and the Abbeville baseball team. Formats include letters and telegrams.

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...

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,...