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[Player file : Waddell, George Edward, 1897- / compiled by the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.].

Title: [Player file : Waddell, George Edward, 1897- / compiled by the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.].

Player file includes material documenting his baseball career and personal life. These items include newspaper and magazine articles, biographical material, press releases, copies of original documents and other sundry items. File contents: folder 1 (miscellaneous & undated); folder 2 (1897- ).

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45187367 View

Waddell, Rube, 1876-1914. Rube Waddell Collection : papers 1889-1998.

Title: Rube Waddell Collection : papers 1889-1998.

Rube Waddell was among the most eccentric and colorful players. His career as a pitcher spanned from 1897 to 1910. Waddell possessed a great fastball and curveball. He won the Triple Crown in 1905 and led the American League six years in a row in strikeouts. In 1889, Waddell attended Volant College in Lawrence County Pennsylvania, and played on the school's baseball team. This collection contains the 1889 Volant College scorebook, a sepia photo of Waddell taken in Ohio, typewritten notes on Waddell dated 1947, an undated paper written about Waddell's career, his obituary and two articles dated 1986 and 1998.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166905787 View