Baseball
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  American Memory Collections
  1. Baseball: Across a Divided Society (primary source set)
  2. Baseball and Jackie Robinson
  3. Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
  4. Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939
  5. Baseball Pictures from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  6. The Ball Game - 1898 Film by Thomas Edison
  7. The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919   (keyword search: baseball)
  8. Also try searching all collections using the keyword baseball.
 
     
     
  America's Library
  1. How Baseball Began
  2. Fenway Lives: Baseball Culture
  3. Join America at Play: Play Ball
  4. Batter Up Game
 
     
     
  Exhibitions
  1. American Treasures: Baseball Cards
  2. American Treasures: Great Baseball Match
  3. American Treasures: The Mighty Casey
  4. American Treasures: The Cincinnati Reds
  5. American Treasures: Breaking the Color Line
  6. American Treasures: The Jackie Robinson Story
  7. American Treasures: Jackie Robinson Papers
  8. American Treasures: A Letter from Jackie Robinson
  9. American Treasures: Baseball Songs
  10. John Bull and Uncle Sam: Popular Culture from Baseball to Rock and Roll
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans & Activities
  1. Jackie Steals Home
  2. Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
  3. African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
  4. Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done
  5. Collection Connections: Baseball Cards
  6. Collection Connections: Jackie Robinson
  7. Black Diamond! Satchel Page and the Negro Baseball Leagues
 
     
     
  Images
  1. Pictorial Americana: Baseball
  2. Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s-1920s
  3. Baseball Pictures from the Bain Collection, 1900-31
  4. Baseball Images in High Demand
  5. Farm Security Admin/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, 1935-45
  6. National Photo Company Baseball Photos, 1909-32
  7. Theodor Horydczak Baseball Photographs, 1932-59
  8. Popular Graphic Arts: Baseball, 1863-1909
  9. Artist Posters: Baseball, 1876-1953
  10. Panoramic Baseball Photographs, 1880-1930
  11. Baseball Heroes
  12. U.S. Presidents and Baseball
  13. Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C.
 
     
     
  Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
  1. Jackie Robinson
  2. Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson
  3. Tinkers to Evers to Chance
  4. From Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
 
     
     
  Today in History
  1. April 15, 1947: Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line
  2. July 7, 1906: "Satchel Paige" Is Born
  3. July 18, 1927: Ty Cobb Gets 4,000th Hit
  4. August 6, 1890: Cy Young Pitches First Pro Game
  5. October 1, 1903: Home Run Kings
  6. October 15, 1972: World Series Commemoration
  7. December 10, 1946: Walter Johnson Dies
  8. December 22, 1862: Connie Mack Is Born
 
     
     
  Music & Webcasts   (sheet music & streaming RealVideo®)
  1. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  2. Baseball Sheet Music
  3. Baseball ABC Book
  4. Books on Baseball
  5. Author Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: Reflections on the First World Baseball Classic of 2006
  6. Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By
  7. Sharon Robinson: Author & Daughter of a Baseball Hero
  8. How About That! The Life of Sports Broadcaster Mel Allen
 
     
     
  Articles
  1. We are the Champions: Baseball
  2. Homerun Haggerty on Intricacies of Scientific Baseball
 
     
     
  Thomas
Major League Baseball Reform Act of 1995. Find more baseball related Congressional resources. 		 
     
     
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"Jackie Robinson-Rookie of the Year. " Vol. 1, no. 6. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications. July 1950. Library of Congress Serials & Government Publications Division. 		 
     
     
 
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Norworth, Jack (lyrics) & Von Tilzer, Albert (music). 1908. Library of Congress Historic Sheet Music Collection. 		 
     
     
 
"Spalding's official base ball guide, 1912." A.G. Spalding & Bros. 1912. Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939. 		 
     
     
 
"Spectators at Pittsburg[h]-Detroit game." 1909 Oct. Bain Collection. 		 
     
     
 
"America's pinch hit march." Dempsey, Bertha Stanfield. 1919. Library of Congress Historic Sheet Music Collection. 		 
     
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