1. America’s Sport: Baseball Primary Sources at the Library of Congress T EACHING WITH P RIMARY S OURCES A CROSS T ENNESSEE

2. T HE L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS www.loc.gov LOVES baseball! Contains the world’s largest collection of baseball sources Has digitized thousands of baseball-related primary sources

3. www.loc.gov/topics/baseball

5. New book: Baseball Americana (2009)

8. Search Today in History for “baseball”

9. Baseball primary sources Search American Memory – www.loc.gov/ammem www.loc.gov/ammem Search Prints & Photographs – www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html Check “baseball” under Browse by Topic – www.loc.gov/topics www.loc.gov/topics Browse these American Memory collections:

10. Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

11. By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s- 1960s

12. History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

13. Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939

14. Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present

15. Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

16. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

17. Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991

18. Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

19. For Teachers:

20. Baseball and American culture

24. Stacey Graham, Project Coordinator Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee sgraham@mtsu.edu (615) 898-2947 Teaching with Primary Sources is a program of the Library of Congress, and is administered in Tennessee by the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University.