President Truman throws out the first pitch in 1947, Harry S. Truman Library photo, National Archives, NLT-AVC-PHT-73(2421)
Baseball during the 1940s
President Truman throws out the first pitch in 1947,
Harry S. Truman Library photo, National Archives,
NLT-AVC-PHT-73(2421)
The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball site offers a Adobe copy of the 1946 Major League Steering Committee Report which touched on the issues of organization, player relations and race. The site also contains the ruling in the case of Gardella v. Chandler, a pioneering challenge to the reserve clause.
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.
This page was last updated
March 30, 2005