Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Part 3
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This fun post includes a family-friendly trivia game you can play at home!
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Category: Sports
Something for Everyone in the Library’s Historic Photo Collections: Tennis
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
One of the most absorbing and interesting things I get to do at the Library is to explore the amazing collections in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room (P&P) both onsite and online. Regardless of the topic I’m researching, there’s bound to be a wealth of relevant images in the P&P online catalog (PPOC) that …
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More Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Part 2
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
The trivia questions in this post were created by Library of Congress Internship (LOCI) program spring 2023 participant Katrina Limson, a MLIS student at San Jose State University. As the dog days of summer goes on, so does the Library of Congress’s partnership with the Washington Nationals—the “team that reads”! On July 31, the Nationals …
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Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Community Outreach
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
The trivia questions in this post were created by Library of Congress Internship (LOCI) program past participant Katrina Limson, a MLIS student at San Jose State University. The Washington Nationals are the “team that reads”, but did you know that the city’s Major League Baseball team and the Library of Congress have a partnership that …
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Baseball History Part Two: Finding Larry Doby in the Newspaper Collections
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This summer, I was inspired by our programs at National Park to explore my own family connections with baseball. This post is a follow-up to my colleague Lauren’s post, “Baseball History: Reflections & Family History Activities”. My grandfather grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, home of his baseball hero—Larry Doby. After serving in World War …
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Baseball History: Reflections & Family Story Activities
Posted by: Lauren Windham Roszak
The Informal Learning Office recently finished a summer reading partnership with the Washington Nationals baseball team. Over the course of the summer, we met over 600 participants at Nationals Park. During the program, we shared Library of Congress collection items with children who came to celebrate reading with relief pitcher Sean Doolittle. Children learned the …
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