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This subcategory contains 63 links Links to clubs, etc. "Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings." Football All kinds "This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure -- 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson." Comprehensive Video Directory Part of the Springfield, MA site Interview with Bell, a Starkville, Mississippi native who starred in the Negro League. "With over 1,450 entries including Major League, Negro League, and All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players, managers, umpires and executives, the newly revised and expanded Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball represents the inaugural effort of Greenwood's online sports reference project." Atlantic Monthly, September, 1949. "A New Hampshire Yankee, George (Birdie) Tebbetts of the Boston Red Sox has been voted by the fans the most popular catcher in the American League, and this is his thirteenth year of major league baseball. After forty-four months in the Army Air Forces he returned to the diamond rusty and, some thought, past his peak. But he has made a remarkable recovery, and today there is no keener, quicker mind behind the plate. Off season, Mr. Tebbetts is associated with the Paul Sadler Insurance Agency of Nashua, New Hampshire." The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds. This section of the BERA Sports Industry guide provides resources on the major league baseball business in the United States. It does not include the minor league, Olympic, college, or amateur baseball market. For references to works dealing with baseball business in other countries, please search the Library of Congress online catalog and the directory of international baseball federations. Official site University of Alabama. From About.com "From 1927 to 1939, Wes Ferrell was a pitcher with Cleveland, the Yankees, and the Red Sox. In this interview he tells what it was like to face some of the great hitters as well as to stand in the batter's box." History of Baseball Uniforms The sports network Info for fans Women's baseball. All kinds but mostly pro "The first girls of summer, women who were paid to play baseball competed in their first game in 1875." "With 755 home runs to his credit, the former Braves' slugger discusses Jackie Robinson's challenge of baseball's color line and his own pursuit of Babe Ruth's record." By Bryan Ethier US horse racing Biographies Professional basketball Atlantic Monthly, April, 1964. On baseball fans. "Despite some gains made since the 1970s, Baseball players face an increasingly hostile labor environment. Management retains the antitrust exemption, and a conservative Congress most likely will not remove the exemption in the near future. Baseball players and other organized workers have few friends in the federal government. Moreover, it appears as if labor disputes in other professional sports such as Hockey and Basketball may give greater impetus to baseball management to take a stronger stance against players in the future. Labor has lost and continues to lose ground vis a vis management." Most of the bowls. Speech. The official site The official site Articles, commerical products, etc. A genealogy Irish Legends Official site of the Professional Golf Association Once America's pastime By Tom Helgesen Soccer.net. Global site for "the beautiful game." historic selection of Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide The magazine Golf history from a UK site By John Nagy The Leonard Brecher Tobacco and Chewing Gum Card Collection contains 154 digital images of baseball cards from the early 20th century. Tobacco, candy, and chewing gum companies printed trade cards or advertising cards to include with their products. Cards in this digital collection come from the American Tobacco Company, American Caramel Company, Colgan Gum Company (of Louisville, Kentucky), John H. Dockman & Sons, and the Standard Caramel Company, and primarily date between 1909 and 1911. Official site Comprehensive |
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