Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 2 volumes (51; 62 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Alternative title

1. Baseball

Subject

1. Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021
2. Baker, Gene, 1925-1999
3. Bankhead, Daniel Robert, 1920-1976
4. Banks, Ernie, 1931-2015
5. Barnhill, David, 1913-1983
6. Bearden, Gene, 1920-2004
7. Black, Joe, 1924-2002
8. Brown, Willard, 1915-1996
9. Bruton, William, 1925-1995
10. Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993
11. Cepeda, Orlando
12. Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991
13. Collins, Gene, 1925-1998
14. Covington, Wes, 1932-2011
15. Dandridge, Ray
16. Day, Leon
17. Doby, Larry
18. Dyer, Eddie, 1899-1964
19. Easter, Luke 1915-1979
20. Gilliam, Jim, 1928-1978
21. Howard, Elston, 1929-1980
22. Gromek, Steve, 1920-2002
23. Harridge, Will, 1881-1971
24. Harris, Bucky, 1896-1977
25. Irvin, Monte, 1919-2016
26. Jethroe, Sam, 1918-2001
27. Jones, Sam, 1925-1971
28. Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 1866-1944
29. Lawrence, Brooks, 1925-2000
30. MacPhail, Lee
31. Manley, Effa, 1897-1981
32. Mays, Willie, 1931-2024
33. McDaniels, Booker, 1913-1974
34. Newcombe, Don, 1926-2019
35. Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982
36. Pennington, Arthur, 1923-2017
37. Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965
38. Robinson, Frank, 1935-2019
39. Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
40. Rodgers, Andre, 1934-2004
41. Rodney, Lester, 1911-2009
42. Saperstein, Abe
43. Smith, Hilton, 1907-1983
44. Thurman, Bob, 1917-1998
45. Trautman, George M
46. Welmaker, Roy, 1913-1998
47. Wilson, Artie
48. Wright, Johnny, 1916-1990
49. Boston Braves (Baseball team)
50. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
51. Chicago American Giants (Baseball team)
52. Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
53. Community baseball league of Harlem
54. Jersey City Giants (Baseball team)
55. Major League Baseball (Organization)
56. New York Black Yankees (Baseball team)
57. New York Yankees (Baseball team)
58. Newark Bears (Baseball team)
59. African American baseball players -- 20th century
60. Discrimination in sports -- United States -- 20th century
61. Negro leagues

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Baseball)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1

Cite as (note)

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. 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

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Baseball.

Production

1. 1942-1959.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1

Cite as:

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. 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

1. 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

1. Baseball

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Baseball)