The collection contains audio interviews conducted by Dale Shellman with a variety of baseball players, managers and others associated with the game. The recordings are on micro audiocassettes. The interviews were most likely conducted in the mid-1980s.

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.