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Encyclopedias/Dictionaries
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General Baseball History
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Early Baseball
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Negro Leagues Baseball
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Minor League Baseball
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Individual Players
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Ballparks
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National Baseball Hall of Fame
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Baseball Scandals and Gambling
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Baseball and Advertising
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- Thomson, Ellen Mazur. American Graphic Design: A Guide to Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
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Baseball and Popular Culture
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- McGimpsey, David. Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000.
- Musser, Charles. Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
- Smith, Loran. Between the Hedges: 100 Years of Georgia Football. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1992
Material Culture/Memorabilia
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- Sotheby's. The Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia: The Early Years. New York: Sotheby's, 1999.
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- Poremba, David Lee. Images of America: Baseball in Detroit, 1886-1968. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2001.