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A collection of souvenir programs for banquets held by baseball leagues, teams, and states. This collection also includes banquet programs for a variety of organizations associated with baseball, award banquets, and menus from baseball-related restaurants.

Abstract This collection contains ephemera related to baseball's world tours of 1888-1889 and 1913-1914. Albert Goodwill Spalding initiated the first world tour in 1888, taking his Chicago White Stockings and the All-Americas "'round the world" to bring baseball to an international audience and promote the Spalding Brothers' business interests. On the tour's twenty-fifth anniversary, Charles Comiskey and John McGraw took the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants on a similar tour. The collection...