Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942.

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Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426148951

Buster Miller Scrapbooks (5 volumes) contain mostly clippings about blacks in sports, particularly Negro National League (baseball), boxing, tennis, collegiate athletics and football, 1938-1942. Also included are ticket stubs, correspondence with college athletic departments regarding black student athletes, writings including several write-ups on Black jockeys and a compilation of important American racing stakes won by Black jockeys, and printed matter.

.8 lin. ft. (2 boxes)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7451323

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Miller, Buster

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Grover C. "Buster" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included "Sports Parade" and "Sports of the Age." In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor. From the description of Buster Miller scrapbooks, 1938-1942. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 426148951 Buster Miller discusses his activities before, during and after the First World War. Before the war, he worked for his fath...