Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Baseball.

Publication

1942-1959.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

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

Subject

• Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021
• Baker, Gene, 1925-1999
• Bankhead, Daniel Robert, 1920-1976
• Banks, Ernie, 1931-2015
• Barnhill, David, 1913-1983
• Bearden, Gene, 1920-2004
• Black, Joe, 1924-2002
• Brown, Willard, 1915-1996
• Bruton, William, 1925-1995
• Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993
• Cepeda, Orlando
• Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991
• Collins, Gene, 1925-1998
• Covington, Wes, 1932-2011
• Dandridge, Ray
• Day, Leon
• Doby, Larry
• Dyer, Eddie, 1899-1964
• Easter, Luke 1915-1979
• Gilliam, Jim, 1928-1978
• Howard, Elston, 1929-1980
• Gromek, Steve, 1920-2002
• Harridge, Will, 1881-1971
• Harris, Bucky, 1896-1977
• Irvin, Monte, 1919-2016
• Jethroe, Sam, 1918-2001
• Jones, Sam, 1925-1971
• Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944
• Lawrence, Brooks, 1925-2000
• MacPhail, Lee
• Manley, Effa, 1897-1981
• Mays, Willie, 1931-
• McDaniels, Booker, 1913-1974
• Newcombe, Don, 1926-2019
• Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982
• Pennington, Arthur, 1923-2017
• Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965
• Robinson, Frank, 1935-2019
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
• Rodgers, Andre, 1934-2004
• Rodney, Lester, 1911-2009
• Saperstein, Abe
• Smith, Hilton, 1907-1983
• Thurman, Bob, 1917-1998
• Trautman, George M
• Welmaker, Roy, 1913-1998
• Wilson, Artie
• Wright, Johnny, 1916-1990
• Boston Braves (Baseball team)
• Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• Chicago American Giants (Baseball team)
• Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
• Community baseball league of Harlem
• Jersey City Giants (Baseball team)
• Major League Baseball (Organization)
• New York Black Yankees (Baseball team)
• New York Yankees (Baseball team)
• Newark Bears (Baseball team)
• African American baseball players > 20th century
• Discrimination in sports > United States > 20th century
• Negro leagues

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)