Hank Aaron visits President Carter. National Archives
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Baseball Since 1950
Hank Aaron visits President Carter. National Archives
NLC-WHSP-C-07030-09) A larger
versions and more information be obtained via searching the NAIL
database/
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The history of the Astrodome, the first indoor baseball facility, is traced at the and the 35 seasons of baseball in the dome are reviewed by the Houston Chronicle.
The evolution of baseball
journalism can be followed in The Sporting News
feature
History of the Sporting News which outlines that key publication from the 1880s
to the present. Individual baseball writers of note are sketched
in the The J. G. Taylor Spink
award honorees. Spink was the founder of The Sporting
News.
Don Zimmer and Bill Madden offer an
entertaining account of Don Zimmer's more than 50 years as a
player, coach and manager in the 2001 book Zim:
A Baseball Life. Remarkable are the number
of key events in the game during last 50 years which Zimmers
career crossed
This page was last updated
August 06, 2004
Background image, an oldtimer (George Herman Ruth)
takes his cuts. during the 1940s.
Photo provided by William R. Conroy.