Primary Source Spotlight: Baseball
For baseball fans, there’s no more quintessential pastime then spending a delicious summer day at the park watching their favorite players slug it out. Some may say the delight at the ballpark depends on the final score of the favored team, but coming from a family of die-hard Chicago Cubs fans I can say that come what may, “Take me out to the ballpark!”
Baseball ABC book
Branch Rickey’s scouting report on Don Drysdale 15 June 1954
Branch Rickey: Changing the Game crowdsourcing project
Baseball songs, interviews & oral histories
Take Me Out to the Ballgame sheet music
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame In the Muse
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame: the missing verses video
Prints & Photographs Division
- Baseball image set
- Pictorial Americana: Baseball
- Baseball Heroes
- U.S. Presidents and Baseball
- Baseball Images in High Demand
- Panoramic Baseball Photographs, 1880-1930
- Baseball Pictures from the Bain Collection, 1900-31
- Farm Security Admin/Office of War Information baseball photos, 1935-45
- National Photo Company Baseball Photos, 1909-32
- Theodor Horydczak Baseball Photographs, 1932-59
- Popular Graphic Arts: Baseball, 1863-1909
- Artist Posters: Baseball, 1876-1953
Primary source collections & items
- Baseball primary source set
- Baseball and Jackie Robinson including early baseball pictures, 1860s-1920s
- Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
- Spalding Baseball Guides, 1889-1939
- Search for baseball images in Mapping an American Pastime Library of Congress & National Museum of African American History and Culture
- The Ball Game – 1898 Film by Thomas Edison
PSN Baseball Curated Collections
- Today in History
- Primary Source Spotlight: Chicago Cubs
- Collection Spotlight: Sports Byline
- Featured Image: The Young “Punk” a Baseball Player
- Featured Image: Memorial Day
Selected Resources from the Chronicling America Historic Newspaper Collection
- Baseball’s Modern World Series (1903-1910)
- Bloomer Girls Women’s baseball (1897-1909)
- Chicago Black Sox Baseball Scandal (1919-1921)
Online Exhibitions
- Baseball Americana
- American Treasures
- Baseball’s Greatest Hits: The Music of Our National Game
- John Bull and Uncle Sam: Popular Culture from Baseball to Rock and Roll
Teaching Resources
Baseball stories from America’s Library
Library blog posts
- Timeless Stories from the Library of Congress
- Inside Adams: Science, Technology, and Business
- From the Catbird Seat: Poetry at the Library
- In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress
- Folklife Today
- Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print
- Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids and Families
- In The Muse: Performing Arts
- Now See Hear! Audio-Visual
- Picture This: Prints & Photos
- Teaching with the Library: Ideas & Primary Sources for Educators
- Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library
- Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps
Webcast videos