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HIST 490C: Baseball and the World (Fall 2024)

Choose Database by type and focus

We have a LOT of primary source databases, each organized by topic and type. These include:

Before starting a search, consider: what types of materials will I need?

Examples

  • Baseball and American Empire
    • newspaper accounts
    • personal accounts
    • foreign relations documents
  • The Spalding Baseball Tour of 1887-1888
    • media and newspaper coverage
    • organizational records
    • first-hand accounts
  • Baseball and Race
    • oral histories
    • written first hand accounts
    • news coverage
    • legal records?
  • Baseball and Masculinity
    • images
    • newspapers
    • promotional materials
  • Baseball and Colonial Japan
    • newspaper accounts
    • personal accounts
    • foreign relations documents
  • Baseball in Taiwan
    • personal accounts
    • local newspaper accounts
    • organizational records
  • Baseball tours around the World 
    • newspaper accounts
    • foreign relations documents
    • first hand accounts
  • The origins of baseball in X country
    • publications from that country during the period of development
    • newspaper coverage of early games
  • Negro Leagues
    • oral histories
    • memoirs
    • newspaper coverage
    • organizational records
  • Baseball and War
    • oral histories
    • memoirs
    • newspaper coverage
    • military records
  • Baseball and 9/11
    • oral histories
    • memoirs
    • newspaper coverage
  • Baseball through the lens of individual figures like Masanori Murakami, Roberto Clemente, or Ichiro Suzuki
    • Their personal writings
    • materials written by their contemporaries

Not sure where to start? Use WorldCat

Limit to your time period of interest and try to search for your topic.

Examples

  • Japan AND baseball before 1939
  • "United States" AND baseball between 1917-1918
  • "Negro Leagues" OR "negro league" 1890-1940

We can also use Subject headings to find collections of primary source. 

  • sources
  • Personal narratives
  • Correspondence
  • Biography
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Speeches
  • Pamphlets
  • Sermons
  • Diaries
  • Wills

Example

  • ("Negro Leagues" OR "negro league") AND (narratives OR source OR interviews)
  • japan AND baseball AND (narratives OR source OR interviews)
  • (narratives OR source OR interviews) and "Vietnam War" AND baseball
  • National League of Professional Baseball Clubs