Collection #

SC 2636

“a time of championship teams:
nineteenth-century baseball
at indiana university”

Collection Information

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

Processed by

Chris Harter
10 October 1997
Revised 16 May 2002
Updated 9 March 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:	1 folder
COLLECTION DATES:	1997
PROVENANCE:	Transfer from Publications Division, Indiana Historical Society
RESTRICTIONS:	None
COPYRIGHT:
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:	Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS:	None
RELATED HOLDINGS:	None
ACCESSION NUMBER:	1997.0527
NOTES:

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of a typescript article submitted by David A. Gross to the Publications Division of the Indiana Historical Society for possible publication in Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.  The article discusses the history of baseball at Indiana University in Bloomington (Monroe County), Indiana in the nineteenth-century from its origins as a club sport to intercollegiate competition.  It gives accounts and highlights of the university team from the 1860s to 1899. It also includes won-lost records for Indiana University in intercollegiate play from 1883 to 1899.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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