Tom Shea Correspondence & Notes : papers 1937-1987.

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Tom Shea Correspondence & Notes : papers 1937-1987.

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This collection is primarily correspondence Tom Shea had with a handful of people relating to baseball players and their careers. He corresponded with Ernie Lanigan, Lee Allen, S.C. Thompson, Hy Turkin and a few others. Their exchange was usually related to a baseball player and statistics. He also had information on Moe Berg, such as newspaper clippings, articles and his Princeton years. There is War Department correspondence dated 1945 and 1946 and the Moe Berg photographs are separated to the Photo Department.

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Sporting News.

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Thompson, S.C. (Sherley Clark), 1897-1967

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Shea, Tom, 1904-1995.

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Lanigan, Ernest J. (Ernest John), 1873-

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Shortly after The Sporting News was launched, 15-year-old Lanigan went to work for his uncles, the Spink brothers. He worked for the New York Press until 1911, when he became secretary of the International League under Ed Barrow. He served stints as baseball editor for the Cleveland Leader, business manager of several Cardinals farm teams, and press information director for the International League. His frail health was a factor in his frequent job changes. In 1946, he was named curator of the H...

Turkin, Hy, 1915-1955

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Berg, Moe, 1921-1973.

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Allen, Lee, 1915-

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