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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Baseball.

Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Baseball.
Publication
1942-1959.

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r. 1: Africa-BasketballMixed materialUse in library Sc Micro R-707 r. 1: Africa-BasketballSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
v. 1Mixed materialRestricted use Sc MG 958 (Baseball) v. 1Offsite

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Description
2 volumes (51; 62 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
  • These scrapbooks are about African Americans in baseball between 1942 and 1959 and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. These scrapbooks focus primarily on the segregation and eventual desegregation of professional baseball, as well as daily baseball operations: player signings, trades, game recaps, and player features. Negro League teams covered include Chicago American Giants, New York Black Yankees, and Newark Eagles. African American players covered include Hank Aaron, Gene Baker, Joe Black, Willard Brown, Roy Campanella, Wes Covington, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Larry Doby, Luke Easter, Elston Howard, Monte Irvin, Sam Jethroe, Brooks Lawrence, Willie Mays, Don Newcombe, Satchel Paige, Johnny Ritchie, Jackie Robinson, Frank Robinson, Hilton Smith, Henry Thompson, Ozzie Virgil, Artie Wilson, and John Wright.
  • Other individuals of note mentioned include Happy Chandler (commissioner of Major League Baseball), K.M. Landis (commissioner of Major League Baseball), Lee MacPhail (baseball manager), Branch Rickey (president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Abe Saperstein (baseball team owner/scout), and George Weiss (baseball executive).
  • Publications represented include Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Christian Science Monitor (Boston), Daily Worker (New York), New York Post, New York Times, and St. Louis Post Dispatch. Not all clippings include date or source information.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Alternative Title
Baseball
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Clippings (information artifacts)
  • Scrapbooks.
Note
  • Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
Access (note)
  • Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1
Cite As (note)
  • Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
Biography (note)
  • The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.
Provenance (note)
  • The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960
Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Baseball)
OCLC
1091358292
Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Baseball.
Production
1942-1959.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Restricted Access
Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1
Cite As:
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Terms Of Use
Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
Biography
The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.
Provenance
The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960
Spine Title
Baseball
Research Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Baseball)
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