Steinbrecher, Frederick "Fritz". Collection 1910

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Steinbrecher, Frederick "Fritz". Collection 1910

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In 1910, the University of Chicago baseball team traveled to Japan to play a tournament with the University of Waseda. This collection contains photographic postcards documenting the tour, compiled by player Frederick "Fritz" Steinbrecher (B.Phil., 1913).

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Steinbrecher, Frederick Fritz

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Frederick "Fritz" Steinbrecher was born in 1888 and received a B.Phil from the University of Chicago in 1913. He played for the University baseball team during its first trip to Japan in 1910. Between 1910 and 1936, the University of Chicago and Waseda University baseball teams hosted each other at five year intervals. These games were extremely popular in Japan, with more than 20,000 spectators attending matches at Waseda in 1930. In 2008 Waseda invited Chicago to play ...

Waseda Daigaku

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...