Rick Van Blair Oral Histories
Scope and Contents
A collection of aduio cassettes created between June of 1990 and December of 1994 by the donor while conducting interviews for his book "Dugout To Foxhole: Interviews With Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II" published in 1994. The original audio cassettes make up this entire collection.
Dates
- June 1990-December 1994
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions but viewing materials does require an appointment. Please contact the Giamatti Research Center, research@baseballhall.org, 607-547-0330.
Conditions Governing Use
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides use copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, and research. The Museum welcomes you to use materials in our collections that are in the public domain and to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law and with proper citation. Permission to publish materials must be obtained from: Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 25 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 Phone: 607.547.0330 E-mail: research@baseballhall.org
Biographical / Historical
Rick Van Blair is an author who has written two sports related books. Thie first one, published in 1994 is titled "Dugout To Foxhole: Interviews With Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II".
Extent
41 Cassettes (in 41 standard audio cassette boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
These oral histories were conducted by Rick Van Blair as research for his book "Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews With Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II" published in 1994. The original audio cassette tapes of those interviews make up this entire collection.
Arrangement
These audio cassettes arrived in no discernible order and were accessioned in no particular order. The materials in this finding aid are arranged in chronological order.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
The audio cassettes are located in cold vault storage and must be acclimated before delivery to the research room.
Physical Location
Recorded Media Archives, Audio cassettes: CTA 2573-2613
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift (BL-2012-00247)
Appraisal
No materials were removed during accessioning or processing.
Processing Information
Materials were sorted and placed within the audio cassette collection in the Recorded Media Archives at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Audio cassettes are stored in their original cases, if provided, within acid-free boxes.
- Title
- Guide to the Rick Van Blair Oral Histories
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Roger C. Lansing
- Date
- February 2023
- 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