Albert Spalding Scrapbooks : scrapbooks, 1904-1908.

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Albert Spalding Scrapbooks : scrapbooks, 1904-1908.

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A collection of two scrapbooks, created by the Spalding Commission, a commission set up with the intent to find the origins of baseball, from 1904-1908. These scrapbooks contain some newspaper articles and correspondence between the members of the commission themselves, and what they collected from their correspondence with outside sources. All material relates to the origin of baseball. Items of note in volume 2 include two letters from Abner Graves, who wrote the commission from Colorado claiming that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, NY, in 1839; a diagram by Albert Spalding showing his theory on the evolution of the game.

scrapbook v. 1 1 scrapbook (.13 cu. ft.)scrapbook v. 2 1 scrapbook (1.12 cu. ft.) + 1 diagram (.13 cu. ft.)

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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Bulkeley, Morgan G. (Morgan Gardner), 1837-1922

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Spalding, A. G. (Albert Goodwill)

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Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906

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Arthur P. Gorman was United States senator from Maryland, 1880-1899 and 1903-1906, and president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. From the description of Arthur P. Gorman papers, 1872-1916 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23153531 Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland. Beginning as a page in the House of Representatives (1852), he was transferred to the Senate through the influence of Illinois senator Stephen A. Dougla...

Reach, Alfred J., 1840-1928.

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Young, N. E., 1840-1916.

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Wright, George, 1847-1937

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Doyle, Jack M.

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The Spalding Commission (commonly called the Mills Commission) was set up by Albert Spalding in 1905 with the goal of discovering the true origins of baseball. After some debate between Henry Chadwick, who claimed baseball evolved from the English game of rounders, and Spalding, who claimed it was entirely American and had no connections to England, Spalding put together a commission to settle the issue. The commission collected any information that could shed light on the subject. After receivi...

Sullivan, James E.

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Mills, A. G., 1844-1929.

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A.G. Mills was president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs from 1882 to 1884, and between 1905 and 1907 he chaired a commission to determine the origins of baseball. Colonel Abraham Gilbert Mills was born on 12 March 1844 in New York, New York. He attended Union Hall Academy and graduated from Jamaica High School in Jamaica, New York. From his boyhood Mills played baseball, including a stint in right field with the Atlantic Base Ball Club of Jamaica. ...