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A collection of scorecards for the Chicago City Series and regular season games for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox.

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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.

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A collection of 630 audio recordings on standard audiocassette and open reel audiotape of baseball games from 1929 to 1998, including regular season, All-Star, and post-season games along with memorial tribute to Col. Ruppert, College All-Star Game, tribute to Harry Caray and historic moments in baseball such as the first game at the Astrodome, Ted Williams' first game as a manager, Henry Aaron's 715th home run, Mark McGwire's 62nd home run and Roger Clemens' 18 K game.

Abstract The collection documents the study of biomechanics by Dr. Robert Shapiro as he applied this to the analysis of baseball batting mechanics and baseball pitching motion for his master's thesis and eventually as a scientific consultant to the Chicago White Sox team physician, Dr. James Boscardin, M.D. The high speed 16mm films and vhs tapes created during this study make up the majority of the collection. Dr. Shapiro's preliminary report on pitching mechanics and performance of members of the...