Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 820.
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:05:45 +0100
From: "Laura Gottesman" <lgot@loc.gov>
Subject: Library of Congress American Memory: Spalding Base Ball
Guides, 1889-1939
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of a new
online collection "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939." The
collection is available on the Library's American Memory Web site at:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/.
"Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939" comprises a historic
selection of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide and the Official
Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides,
which were published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spalding's Official Base
Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game
of baseball. It featured editorials from baseball writers on the state
of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous
season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called
minor leagues across the nation.
The Library of Congress has more than one thousand of these guides,
believed to be the largest collection held by any institution. A small
sample is offered here in "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939"; in
the future, the entire collection may be digitized and made available on
this Web site. The twenty Official Indoor Baseball Guides and fifteen
Spalding's Official Base Ball Guides currently presented are examples of
the annual guides described above.
More information about the content of this collection is available at:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/spaldingintro.html
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States. Its more than 120
collections range from the papers of the U.S. presidents, Civil War
photographs and early films of Thomas Edison to papers documenting the
women's suffrage and civil rights movements, Jazz Age photographs and
the first baseball cards. The collections contain over 8 million items
from the Library of Congress and other major repositories.
Please direct any questions to American Memory's "Ask A Librarian" web
form: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html
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