Sports Business 

Baseball. (1998). In Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. in Credo Reference.

Baseball. (2004). In The Great American History Fact-Finder. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. in Credo Reference.

SPORTS. (2000). In Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Farmington, MI: Thomson Gale. in Credo Reference.

Story, R. (2001) Baseball. In The Oxford Companion to United States History.  in American National Biography.

American Memory  "provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning." (Library of Congress)

Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 comprises a historic selection of Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball (description from Library of Congress).

Baseball and Jackie Robinson: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s

Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture

Baseball Digest (1945 -)  Images of entire issues, including ads.

Sports illustrated  (1954 -)  Consult the catalog record for detailed holdings, formats, and locations.

Graphical History of Baseball - includes attendance statistics.

History of Baseball - a collection of links to sites

History of the World Series (The Sporting News)

National Baseball Hall of Fame

Use the following to locate books on this subject in our collection:

History of baseball

GV862.5-GV863.995

The LA84 Foundation - Search page provides full-text access to all digital documents and shows a complete list of titles.

Search All of the digital publications are available at no cost to website visitors.

Includes Baseball Magazine (1908-1920) "Baseball Magazine was an important source of baseball information, published from 1908 to 1957 and briefly in 1964 and 1965. The magazine contains articles, results, statistics and photography." (LA84 Foundation), and Journal of Sport History (1974-2005).

The LA84 Foundation operates the largest sports research library in North America, the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center.