Grand Rapids baseball research collection

Collection

Identifier: Collection 271

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Area general league teams are included, but some occasional examples of teams formed of the workers of area businesses may also be found. Such items as a photocopy of a Wally Pipp scrapbook document that Grand Rapids boy who made it to the major leagues. Score books and play bills from the 1950s era Grand Rapids Jets are included. A copy photo of the Grand Rapids Base Ball Team, Central League from 1906 is included. Other items are added as received. A number of other GRPL archival collections document the early base ball league rules, African American baseball in the Kent Co. area, and several collections are found related to the Grand Rapids Chicks women’s baseball team.

Dates

1906-

Extent

1.9 Linear Feet (Two boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Grand Rapids Baseball Collection is a small devised collection created to bring together by topic various accessions of primarily research materials related to men’s baseball in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many items are copies, while other items are original ephemera related to the sport in Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Various gifts and purchases, accession numbers 1991.031, 1994.00004, P1999.029, P2000.081 and 2001.104.

Related Materials

For early news clippings of baseball in Grand Rapids, with many teams from area businesses and communities, see the Bajema Baseball clippings notebook in the Local History collections.

Collection 58, Grand Rapids Chicks

Collection 160, Helen Earlene Risinger

Collection 213, Kent Base Ball Club

Collection 251, African American Baseball