Olla Westgate World Series Notebooks
Scope and Contents
Twenty-one notebooks containing handwritten play-by-play accounts of World Series games played between 1948 and 1969. Olla recorded information such as home field, weather, time of game, attendance, umpires and whether each pitch was a called strike or a swing and a miss.
Dates
- 1948-1969
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Biographical / Historical
Olla Westgate lived in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada and recorded the World Series games, play-by-play, so her husband Ralph Westgate could read about the games when he returned home from work. She listened to the games on the radio from 1948 to 1952. Between 1953 and 1969, she recorded the games from television.
Extent
0.92 Cubic feet (in 2 letter document boxes)
0.83 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection is comprised of 21 notebooks containing handwritten play-by-play accounts of World Series games played between 1948 and 1969.
Physical Location
Manuscript Archives, Aisle 7, Range d, Shelf 5
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift (BL-2003-00610)
- Title
- Guide to the Olla Westgate World Series Notebooks
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Helen Stiles, reviewed and updated by Claudette Scrafford in November 2014.
- Date
- April 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Archives Repository