Pic of the Week: Mo’Ne Davis Edition
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Former Little League World Series star Mo'Ne Davis meets with local DC Force team in the Baseball Americana exhibit. Photo: Shawn Miller.
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Category: Baseball
New! Baseball’s Jim Bouton and “Ball Four” at the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of Jim Bouton, the former Major League pitcher whose 1970 memoir, "Ball Four," became one of the most celebrated American books of the 20th Century, are now at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Baseball, Books, Manuscripts
Opening Day! A Video Tour of Library’s Baseball Americana
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Major League Baseball starts today, which makes it the start of spring, never mind the official calendar. We remind you that your friendly national Library is just a long fly ball from Nationals Park, where the Nats open today against the New York Mets. If you haven’t made it to our Baseball Americana exhibit, it’s …
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Branch Rickey Crowdsourcing Project: It’s Outta Here!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post from Lauren Algee, LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist. Just four months after the Library partnered with the public to transcribe the papers of baseball icon Branch Rickey, volunteers have transcribed all 1,926 pages of Rickey’s scouting reports, making them available for digital research just in time for Major League Baseball’s …
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