Baseball players

The collection documents the baseball photography career of George Burke and possibly his assistant, George Brace, between 1922 and 1951. It primarily includes portraits of players and managers as they passed through Chicago baseball stadiums like Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field, and many people are documented at various points throughout their entire Major League careers.

A collection of approximately 540 scouting reports and correspondence by George Genovese between 1964 and 2011.

The collection documents George Weiss' tenure with the New York Yankees minor and major league organizations from 1932 to 1960 and the New York Mets major league organization from 1961 to 1966. It includes financial records, player reports, ticket files, correspondence, clippings, personnel files, scouting evaluations, ephemera, tour files, marketing and promotion files, and personal documents.

A collection of baseball cards published by the Goodey Gum Company. These date between 1933-1938.

A collection of cigarette and cabinet cards issued by Goodwin & Co. to advertise their "Old Judge" and "Gypsy Queen" cigarette brands. The collection consists of full-length studio portraits and posed outdoor action scenes of both Major and Minor League players in the National League, American Association, and the Player's League. The materials date from 1886 to 1890.

A collection of black-and-white photographs of major league teams, players, and Hall of Famers. Many are game action shots.

This collection contains 16mm film reels of various lengths that are related to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Cooperstown, NY. The films were generated by news photographers and editors working for WKTV, the NBC-affiliated television station in Utica, NY, USA in the years between 1955 and 1982. Some of the films are the original content filmed by the camera operators and some of the films are edited news pieces used within the news programs broadcast by the station.

The collection documents some of the history of the game in New York City during the years between 1947 and 1957 as told in the documentary "The Golden Decade of Baseball" as well as through the eyes of Hall of Fame broadcasters. The original video field tapes and audio cassettes from the interviews conducted for those documentaries make up this entire collection.

A collection of four hundred and forty-four comic books donated by Kurt Bloeser. The comics are baseball-related and many are about a particular Hall of Famer or player.