Baseball: Selected
Resources at Central Library
The San Diego Public
Library has formed a partnership with the Ted Williams Chapter of SABR, the
Society for American Baseball Research. SABR was founded in Cooperstown, N.Y.
in 1971. It is a not-for-profit organization with over 7,000 members
worldwide--researchers, baseball fans, statisticians, and biographers. The Ted
Williams Chapter of the Society has donated funds that have allowed the Central
Library to purchase issues of The
Sporting News from 1886 to 1969 on microfilm from the University of Notre
Dame, The Sporting Life from 1883 to
1917 on microfilm, a baseball scrapbook collection and various 19th-century
sports newspapers from 1857 to 1886.
As part of this
partnership, San Diego Public Library will soon have an electronic link from
the Library Catalog to the SABR Baseball Index. This index, compiled by SABR
volunteers, provides comprehensive access to more than 175,000 books, magazine
articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs or cartoons about
baseball. Once the link to the Library Catalog is live, library users will be
able to look up books from the SABR Baseball Index in the Library Catalog and
get call numbers and availability for the library system.
Material relating to
baseball is primarily located in the Art, Music & Recreation Section.
Biographies of baseball figures are located in the History Section, novels
about baseball are located in the Literature Section, and some of the reference
books pertaining to baseball in California are located in the California Room.
In addition to books, the Art, Music & Recreation Section also has CD-ROMs,
video documentaries and feature films about baseball, sheet music for baseball
songs, compact discs featuring songs about baseball, and baseball audio books on tape and CD. The
reference books pertaining to baseball are located in the Art, Music & Recreation
Section and in the basement storage. Some branch libraries have unique baseball
titles that are not owned by the Central Library.
THE CATALOG
Baseball material can
be researched in several ways. On the Library Web Catalog, one can search
BASEBALL as a subject or as a keyword. Library users searching for a format
other than book can specify MUSIC RECORDING, VIDEOCASSETTE, etc. under Material
Type.
Magazine articles on
baseball can be found by searching InfoTrac
OneFile. Many of these articles are full text and can be printed out at the
computer. If only a citation is given, the patron can obtain the magazine at
the Call Desk if it is owned by the library. Newspaper articles can be searched
in Proquest which indexes dozens of
newspapers from all over the country.
La Biblioteca Pública de San Diego ha formado una asociación con la
organización Ted Williams que es parte de SABR (Society for American Baseball
Research), Sociedad de Investigación de Béisbol Americano. SABR fue fundado en Cooperstown, Nueva York
en 1971. Es una organización sin fines
lucrativos con más de 7,000 miembros a nivel mundial que incluyen
investigadores, estadísticos, biógrafos y fanáticos de béisbol. La organización Ted Williams donó fondos que
permitieron a la Biblioteca Central adquirir de la Universidad de Notre Dame
ejemplares de la revista The Sporting
News en microfilm desde 1886 a 1969,
la revista The Sporting Life
en microfilm desde 1883 a 1917, una colección de albums de recortes de béisbol
y varios periódicos deportivos de los años 1857 a 1886.
Como parte de esta asociación, la Biblioteca Pública de San Diego tendrá
un enlace electrónico desde el catálago al índice de béisbol de SABR. Este índice recopilado por voluntarios de
SABR provee acceso a más de 175,000 libros, artículos de revistas, programas,
panfletos, películas, grabaciones, canciones y caricaturas sobre béisbol. Una vez que el enlace al catálago de la
biblioteca esté disponible, usuarios de la biblioteca podrán buscar libros en
el índice de SABR por medio del catálago y obtener los números de clasificación
y saber si están disponibiles en el sistema de bibliotecas.
Recursos relacionados con el béisbol están localizados principalmente en el departamento de Arte, Música y Recreación. Biografías sobre figuras del béisbol están localizadas en el departamento de historia, novelas de ficción se localizan en el departamento de literatura y algunos libros de referencia sobre béisbol en California se encuentran en la sección de California (California Room) en el segundo piso de la biblioteca. Además de libros, el departamento de Arte, Música y Recreación tiene discos compactos, videos documentales y películas sobre béisbol, partituras de canciones de béisbol, libros en casete y en discos compactos. Los libros de referencia sobre béisbol se encuentran en el departamento de Arte, Música y Recreación y la área de almacenamiento localizado en el sótano. Algunas sucursales tienen títulos no disponibles en la Biblioteca Central.
EL CATALAGO
Material sobre béisbol puede ser investigado de varias maneras. Por medio del catálago de la biblioteca atra vez del Internet uno puede buscar
béisbol como sujeto o como palabra clave.
Usuarios buscando material que no sea libro pueden indicar MUSICA,
VIDEO, etc., bajo Tipo de Material.
Artículos de revista sobre béisbol se encuentran buscando en el índice
de revistas (InfoTrac OneFile). Muchos de estos artículos son de texto
completo y pueden ser imprimidos. Si
solamente la citación está disponible se puede obtener la revista en el Call
Desk si la biblioteca la tiene. Artículos de periódico se investigan usando Proquest, una base de datos que contiene
un índice de periódicos de todo el país.
THE
INTERNET
www.sabr.org
SABR, the Society for American Baseball
Research
Find out about SABR’s publications,
collections, and activities.
SABR, Sociedad
de Investigación de Béisbol Americano
Descubre acerca de las publicaciones, colecciones y actividades de SABR.
www.baseball.com
Baseball.com
Links to team websites, fantasy leagues
and baseball news.
Contiene enlaces a sitios de Internet de equipos de béisbol, grandes
ligas interactivas (fantasy leagues) y noticias de béisbol.
www.baseballamerica.com
Baseball America Online
Information on high school, college
teams, plus major and minor leagues and drafts.
Información sobre equipos de preparatoria, colegio y las ligas mayores y
menores y los “drafts”.
www.baseballhalloffame.org
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Read about hall of famers and honorees,
view exhibits and collections.
Salón de la
Fama Nacional de Béisbol
Infórmate sobre personajes famosos y ve exhibiciones y colecciones de
béisbol.
www.baseball-links.com
Baseball Links
Links to baseball history,
international baseball and youth baseball
Enlaces a la historia de béisbol, béisbol internacional y béisbol para
jóvenes.
www.mlb.com
The Official Site of Major League
Baseball
Look up statistics on teams and
individual players as well as baseball
El sitio oficial a las ligas mayores de béisbol de Los Estados Unidos.
Encuentra estadísticas sobre equipos, jugadores y béisbol.
www.retrosheet.org
Retrosheet
Computerized play-by-play accounts of
pre-1984 major league games, with customized statistical analysis.
Fue fundado con el propósito de computarizar juegos importantes de las
ligas mayores pre-1984. Incluye también
análisis estadístico.
ART,
MUSIC & RECREATION
Reference Books
America’s
National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning, Evolution, Development
and Popularity of Baseball by A. G. Spalding. 1911. R797 SPALDING
Baseball Desk Reference by Lawrence
Lorimer. 2002. R796.357 LORIMER
The
Baseball Timeline: In Association with Major League Baseball by Burt
Solomon. 2001. R796.357 SOLOMON
The
Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia. 1999. R796.357
HALPER
Baseball:
A Comprehensive Bibliography by Myron J. Smith. 1993 R796.357 SMITH
Baseball
and American Culture: A Thematic Bibliography of Over 4,500 Works by Donald E.
Walker. 1995. R796.357 WALKER
Baseball
by the Numbers: How Statistics Are Collected, What They Mean, and How They
Reveal the
Game by Willie Runquist. 1995.
R796.357 RUNQUIST
Baseball
Card Price Guide. 2002. R769.49796 BASEBALL
Baseball
Guide.
2002. R796.357 BASEBALL
Baseball
Register.
2002. R796.357 BASEBALL
The
Baseball Research Handbook by Gerald Tomlinson. 1987. R796.357 TOMLINSON
The
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues by James A.
Riley. 1994. R796.357 RILEY
The
Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball by Jonathan Fraser Light. 1997.
R796.35703 LIGHT
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James.
2001. R796.35709 JAMES
SABR
Presents the Home Run Encyclopedia: Who, What and Where of Every Home Run Hit
Since
1876. 1996. R796.35726 SABR
San
Diego Padres Media Guide. 2002. R796.357 SAN
Circulating Books
Historical
Books
Amazin’: The
Miraculous History of New York’s Most Beloved Baseball Team by Peter
Golenbock. 2002. 796.357 GOLENBOCK
Banana Bats
& Ding-Dong Balls: A Century of Unique Baseball Inventions by Dan
Gutman. 1995. 796.357 GUTMAN
Baseball:
A History of America’s Game by Benjamin G. Rader. 2002. 796.357
RADER
Baseball
and the Color Line: the African-American Experience by Tom
Gilbert. 1995. 796.357 GILBERT
Baseball as
America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. 2002. 796.357
BASEBALL
Blue Skies,
Green Fields: A Celebration of Major League Baseball Stadiums by Ira Rosen.
2001. 796.35706 ROSEN
Bombers: An
Oral History of the New York Yankees by Richard Lally. 2002. 796.35764 LALLY
Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the
Last Century by Allen Barra. 2002. 796.357 BARRA
Cooperstown
Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture. 796.357
COOPERSTOWN 1997, 2000, 2001
Dugout Days:
Untold Tales and Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Career of Billy
Martin
by Michael DeMarco. 2001. 796.357 DEMARCO
Fear
Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story by Jim Piersall. 1999. 796.357
PIERSALL
Great Home
Runs of the 20th Century by Rich Wescott. 2001. 796.357 WESTCOTT
Heartbreakers:
Baseball’s Most Agonizing Defeats by John Kuenster. 2001. 796.357
KUENSTER
Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 compiled and
edited by Dean A. Sullivan. 2002. 796.35709 LATE
Missed
It by That Much: Baseball Players Who Challenged the Record Books by Victor
Debs, Jr. 1998. 796.357 DEBS
Nineteenth
Century Baseball: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871
through 1900 by Marshall D. Wright. 1996. 796.357 WRIGHT
Perfect: The Inside Story of Baseball's Sixteen Perfect
Games by James Buckley Jr. 2002. 796.357 BUCKLEY
The Physics of Baseball by Robert Kemp Adair. 2002.
796.357 ADAIR
POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime behind
Barbed Wire
by Tim Wolter. 2002. 796.35709 WOLTER
Pride
of Havana: The History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto Gonzalez. 1999.
796.357 GONZALEZ
The Road to
Cooperstown: A Critical History of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Selection Process by James F.
Vail. 2001. 796.35764 VAIL
Sleeper Cars
and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to
Teeing It Up with the President by Elden Auker. 2001. 796.357 AUKER
Spitters,
Beanballs, and the Incredible Shrinking Strike Zone: The Stories behind the
Rules of Baseball by Glen Waggoner. 2000. 796.35702 WAGGONER
A Stitch in
Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845-2000 by Gene Elson. 2001. 796.35709 ELSTON
Stolen!:
A History of Base Stealing by Russell Roberts. 1999.
796.35727 ROBERTS
Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia by Joseph A.
Reaves. 2002. 796.357 REAVES
What Baseball Means To Me: A Celebration of Our National
Pastime edited
by Curt Smith and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 2002. 796.357
WHAT
Practical
Books
Baseball Skills & Drills by the
American Baseball Coaches Association. 2001. 796.3572 BASEBALL
Bob Feller’s
Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom by Bob Feller. 2001. 796.357 FELLER
Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul: Inspirational
Stories of Baseball, Big-League Dreams and the Game of Life edited by Jack
Canfield et al. 2001. 796.357 CHICKEN
Fodor’s
Baseball Vacations. 2000. 796.357 FODOR’S
The Louisville
Slugger Complete Book of Hitting Faults and Fixes: How to Detect and Correct
the 50 Most Common Mistakes at the Plate by Mark Gola. 2001. 796.35726
GOLA
Managing
Little League Baseball by Ned McIntosh. 2000. 796.35762 MCINTOSH
Parent’s Guide
to Baseball: Surviving and Thriving Youth League to College by Bruce
Lambin. 2000. 796.35762 LAMBIN
Rules for
Umps: Baseball 2001 by Bill Topp. 2001.
796.3573 TOPP
The Thinking
Fan’s Guide to Baseball by Leonard Koppett. 2001. 796.357 KOPPETT
Books on Tape and CD
Fair Ball: A
Fan’s Case for Baseball by Bob Costas. 2000. AC 796.357 COSTAS
The
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. 1999.
AC Fic KING; CD Fic KING
Great
Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson. 1996. AC B/ROBINSON
Me
and Hank
by Sandy Tolan. 2000. AC B/TOLAN
October
1964
by David Halberstam. 1994. AC 796.357 HALBERSTAM
The Oldest Rookie by Jim Morris and Joel
Engel. 2001. AC B/MORRIS
Sosa:
una autobiografía by Sammy Sosa. 2001. AC SPA B/SOSA
When
You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! by Yogi Berra 2001.
CD B/BERRA.
Videorecordings
61*.
2001.
VC 791.4372 SIXTY; DVD 791.4372 SIXTY
Baseball
by
Ken Burns. 1994. VC 796.357 BASEBALL; DVD 796.357 BASEBALL
Bull Durham. 2002, c1988. DVD 791.4372 BULL
Eight
Men Out. 2001,
c1988. DVD 791.4372 EIGHT
Heart of San
Diego: Buzzie Bavasi. VC B/BAVASI
The Pride of
the Yankees. 1998, c1942. DVD 791.4372 PRIDE
Music Recordings
Baseball’s
Greatest Hits. 1989. CD782.42164 BASEBALL’S
Baseball’s
Greatest Hits: Let’s Play II. 1990. CD 782.42164 BASEBALL’S
Music Scores
Baseball
in Music and Song. 1954. RM 786 BASEBALL
The
Mighty Casey: A Baseball Opera in Three Scenes by William
Schuman. 1954. M782 SCHUMAN
CD-ROMS
The Baseball
Encyclopedia. 1996. CDROM 796.357 BASEBALL
High
Heat Baseball 2000. CDROM 794.86357 HIGH
Microsoft
Baseball 2001. 2000. CDROM 794.8635 MICROSOFT
Sammy
Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001. CDROM 796.86357 SAMMY
Picture File
San
Diego Padres file containing pictures of the team and some individual players.
HISTORY
Biographies
Joe
DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer. 2000. B/DIMAGGIO
Nolan
Ryan: The Road to Cooperstown by Nolan Ryan. 1999. B/RYAN
A Pitcher’s
Story: Innings with David Cone by Roger Angell. 2001. B/CONE
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy.
2002. B/KOUFAX
Sosa!
Baseball’s Home Run Hero by Patricia Duncan. 1998. B/SOSA
Ted Williams:
My Life in Pictures by Ted Williams. 2001. B/WILLIAMS
When
You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of
Baseball’s Greatest Heroes by Yogi Berra. 2001. B/BERRA
LITERATURE
& LANGUAGE
American
Novels and Stories Featuring Baseball by Grant Burns. 1987. R016.8135 BURNS
Baseball: A
Literary Anthology edited by Nicholas Dawidoff. 2002. 810.80355 BASEBALL
Baseball
Fantastic: Stories. 2000. 813.0108 BASEBALL
The Sports Pages: A Critical Bibliography of
Twentieth-Century American Novels and Stories Featuring Baseball, Basketball,
Football, and Other Athletic Pursuits by Grant Burns. 1987. R016.8135 BURNS
The Writer’s
Game: Baseball Writing in America by Richard Orodenker. 1996. 810.9355
ORODENKER
Fiction
The
annotated baseball stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919
edited by George W. Hilton. 1995. Fic LARDNER
Columbus
Slaughters Braves by Mark Friedman. 2001. Fic FRIEDMAN
Hanging Curve: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery
by Troy Soos. 1999. [Myst] Fic SOOS
Havana
Heat
by Darryl Brock. 2000. Fic BROCK
The Heavenly World Series: Timeless Baseball Fiction by Frank
O'Rourke. 2002. Fic O’ROURKE
One
Man Died on Base by Deloris Forbes. 2001. Fic FORBES
Slider by Patrick Robinson. 2002. Fic ROBINSON
Snow
in August
by Pete Hamill. 1997. Fic HAMILL
Spanish-Language
Books
/ Libros en Español
Béisbol:
latinoamericanos en las Grandes Ligas by Michael M. Oleksak and Mary Adams
Oleksak. 1995. SPA 796.357 OLEKSAK
La chica que
amaba a Tom Gordon by Stephen King. 2000. SPA Fic KING
Fernando! by Mike
Littwin. Spanish & English. 1981. SPA 796.357 LITTWIN
Latinos en el
béisbol de Estados Unidos by James D. Cockcroft.
1999. SPA 796.357 COCKCROFT
SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Baseball and
the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the American Pastime edited by
Robert Elias. 2001. 306.483 ELIAS
Covering Home:
Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball by Jack
Petrash. 2000. 306.874 PETRASH
Legal Bases : Baseball and the Law by Roger I.
Abrams. 1998, 344.73099 ABRAMS
The Money
Pitch: Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration by Roger I.
Abrams. 2000. 331.2 ABRAMS
Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to
1920
by Robert F. Burk. 1994. 338.4 BURK
CALIFORNIA
ROOM
History
of San Diego Baseball. 1993. RCC 796.357 HISTORY
More
Than a Ballpark: An Investment in Our Future: A Ballpark for San Diego. 1998. RCC
796.357 MORE
The
Pacific Coast Baseball League, 1903-1947. 1947. RCC 797 PACIFIC
Padres
Magazine: Official Game Day Magazine for the San Diego Padres. 1998. RCC
796.357 PADRES
San
Diego Padres 1969 Inaugural Yearbook. 1969. RCC 796.357 SAN
Vertical Files containing newspaper
clippings on the San Diego Padres and many individual players.
CHILDREN’S
ROOM
Béisbol!:
Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends by Jonah Winter. 2001. J 796.357
WINTER
Dress through the Ages. Vol. 3, Baseball Player by Irene
Franck and David Brownstone. J 391.09 FRANCK
vol. 3
Game
Day
by Cari Meister. 2001. E MEISTER
The
Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth by Jean L. S. Patrick. 2000. J 796.357
PATRICK
Hank
Aaron: Brave in Every Way by Peter Golenbock. J B/AARON
Mark
McGwire
by Bob Temple. 2000. J B/MCGWIRE
Nick Plays
Baseball
by Rachel Isadora. 2001. J 796.357 ISADORA
Satchel Paige by Lesa
Cline-Ransome. 2000. J B/PAIGE
Spanish-Language
Books
/ Libros en Español
Aquí viene el
que se poncha! by Leonard Kessler. 1995 E SPA KESSLER
Béisbol
en los barrios by Henry Horenstein. 1997. J SPA 796.357 HORENSTEIN
El
día del partido by Cari Meister. 2001.
E SPA MEISTER
Mark
McGwire: Record Breaker (rompe récords) by Rob Kirkpatrick. English and
Spanish. 2002. J SPA B/MCGWIRE
Puedo ser jugador de beisbol by Carol
Greene. 1986. J SPA 796.357 GREENE
Roberto
Clemente by
Thomas W. Gilbert. 1995. J SPA B/CLEMENTE
Sammy Sosa:
bateador de home runs by Rob Kirkpatrick. 2002. J SPA B/SOSA
Videorecordings
Angels in the
Outfield. 1995.
J DVD 791.4372 ANGELS
Mom, Can You
Teach Me How to Hit? 2001. J VC 796.35726 MOM
The Rookie. 2002. J VC
791.4372 ROOKIE
TEEN
COLLECTION
Books
Babe Ruth by James
Duplacey. 2001. B/RUTH
Baseball:
Becoming a Great Hitter by Ron Fitzgerald. 2000. 796.35726 FITZGERALD
Free
Radical
by Claire Rudolf Murphy. 2002. Fic MURPHY
Jackie
Robinson
by Gina DeAngelis. 2001. B/ROBINSON
Plunking
Reggie Jackson by James W. Bennett. 2001. Fic BENNETT
The
Story of Baseball by Lawrence S. Ritter. 1999. 796.39709 RITTER
Top
10 Baseball Legends by John Albert Torres. 2001. 796.357 TORRES
Videorecordings
Fielding by the American Baseball Coaches
Association. 2001. VC 796.35724 FIELDING
Hitters on Hitting: Finding the Sweet Spot. 2001. VC
796.357 HITTERS
CALL
DESK
Periodicals
American
Chronicle of Sports & Pastimes (1868 on microfilm in Storage)
Baseball
America.
(1988-1996)
Baseball
Players Chronicle (1867 on microfilm in Storage)
Baseball
Record (1885-1886
on microfilm in Storage)
Baseball
Scrapbooks (1853-1882 on microfilm in Storage)
New
England Base Ballist (1868 on microfilm in Storage)
New
York Clipper. (Various issues between 1857 and 1883 on microfilm in
Storage)
Sporting
Life. (1883-1917
on microfilm in Storage)
The
Sporting News. (1886 to the present; current year’s issues in Art, Music
& Recreation)
Sports
Illustrated.
(1954 to the present; current issue on display near Science Section)