General Baseball History Links

"The Ted" or Turner Field in Atlanta

 

The most comprehensive set of baseball links including history and contemporary matters is John Skilton's Baseball Links, a large collection. This excellent site arranges links into several categories and may send you around the world.

 

Publications Official Sites
Private and Commercial Sites Scholarly Sites
Miscellaneous A Baseball History Reading List

Retrosheet.org is a gold mine of information and stats some dating to the 1870s.

BaseballReference.com has a wealth of material on players, teams, leagues, and awards from the games professional beginnings to the present.

If you are interested in baseball cards, check out the gallery offered by Online Baseball Cards and  the Library of Congress exhibition on Baseball Cards from, 1870 to 1914.

Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses "Baseball, History, and the Art of the Narrative," in a audio link provided by the Smithsonian Institution.

The Society of American Baseball Research's The Business of Baseball site is rich in documents.

Baseball History on the Web.

Sports History on the Web

American History on the Web

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E-mail James.Harper@ttu.edu

 

This page was last updated
March 31, 2005

	

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