Baseball Collection

Scope and Contents Includes pages 499-512 of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Volume XVII, Number 28, April 14, 1915 with the follwing articles: "Early Baseball at Harvard" [by] Harold C. Ernst (Harvard College Class of 1876) "Baseball in the 80s" [by] Walter B. Phillips (Harvard College Class of 1886) "In the Early 90s" [by] Louis B. Frothingham (Harvard...

Scope and Contents Enclosed in a library wrapper, includes pages 499-513 from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Volume XVII, Number 28, April 14, 1915, and pages 537-539 with some unnumbered pages, from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Volume XVII, Number 29, April 28, 1915. Contains the following articles and pieces: "Early Baseball at Harvard" [by]...

Scope and Contents This is an article from the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, March 1917 issue, about the New York style of baseball being played in Cambridge, as evidenced in the Papers of Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam of Harvard University. These papers are held in the Harvard University Archives, although their inventory does not explicity mention baseball and the presence of the records in Putnam's papers is...

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Photocopy of published scores of intercollegiate games, including Harvard-Yale.

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A newspaper clipping from the January 1911 issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.

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Unidentified newspaper clippings and offprint.

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Newspaper clipping Harvard's First Baseball Team.

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Clipped article includes a G. A. Flagg graphic.

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Portions cut from a scrapbook.

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Baseball at Harvard from 1863 to 1879; includes the story of Frederick W. Thayer's invention of the catcher's mask.

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Several of these articles are on Frederick W. Thayer's invention of the catcher's mask in 1876-1877.

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Scorecard verso has graphic depicting a ballplayer and a defensive dog, with caption: "Thou Art So Near and Yet So Far!"

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Theatrical program from a show held for the benefit of the Harvard University Base Ball Club.

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Kept while Ernst studied at the Harvard Medical School, the scrapbook contains news clippings from the 1877, 1878, and 1879 baseball season. Includes the batting and fielding records for the 1877 team, a scorecard from the Harvard-Yale game of 1877, and menus for dinners of the Harvard Base Ball Nine.

Scope and Contents Volume is a small notebook belonging to William Roscoe Thayer (Harvard College Class of 1881). The volume is labeled on cover "W. R. Thayer Harvard Scores, 1878." Contains sketches, game scores, and some newspaper clippings. Letter, dated April 14, 1922, is to Harold C. Ernst (Harvard College Class...