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World tours (Baseball)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Babe Ruth Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: BA SCR 044
Abstract

A collection of 25 scrapbooks relating to the career of Babe Ruth between 1921 and 1935. These were created by his manager, Christy Walsh.

Dates: 1921-1935

Mark Lamster Research papers

 Collection
Identifier: BA MSS 159
Abstract

This is a collection consisting primarily of newspaper clippings, articles, and correspondence for the book “Spalding’s World Tour: the epic adventure that took baseball around the globe – and made it America’s game”, c. 2006. This collection was created by the author Mark Lamster.

Dates: 1844-2006; Majority of material found within 1888-1890

World Tours collection

 Collection
Identifier: BA MSS 033
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...
Dates: 1888-1951