African American baseball players
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Integration - Correspondence and Clippings collection
A collection of correspondence, telegrams, and newspaper clippings relating to African American baseball players integration into Major League Baseball. This collection is dated from 1937 to 1980.
Negro Leagues photographic materials
The collection documents the pictorial history of baseball's Negro Leagues before the integration of baseball. It primarily includes team, group, and general action photographs. Of particular interest is the large colleciton of photographic materials from the Homestead Grays.
Tom Burlin Questionnaire papers
A collection of questionnaires collected by Tom Burlin starting in 1969. These include major league players and umpires.
Wendell Smith papers
The Wendell Smith papers include correspondence and newspaper columns written by Smith for the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago's American. These papers document Smith's direct and indirect support of the candidacy of Jackie Robinson as the first Black American to play in the National or American League in the 20th Century.