GUIDE to the LARRY TYE RESEARCH PAPERS National Baseball Hall of Fame Library Manuscript Archives National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 25 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 www.baseballhall.org Claudette Scrafford, Manuscript Archivist March 2014 Collection Number BA MSS 225 BL-225.2011 Title Larry Tye Research Papers Date Range 1880 - 2008 Extent 5.16 linear feet (14 archival boxes) Repository National Baseball Hall of Fame Library 25 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 Abstract A collection of newspaper and journal articles, book excerpts, interview transcripts, research notes, and correspondence related to Larry Tye’s book “Satchel: the life and times of an American Legend”. Preferred Citation Larry Tye Research Papers, BA MSS 225, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY Access By appointment during regular business hours, email [email protected]. Property Rights Property rights are owned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Provenance This collection was donated by the author Larry Tye in 2011. Biography From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine. He also served as the Globe’s environmental reporter, roving national writer, investigative reporter, and sports writer. Before that he was the environmental reporter at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, and covered government and business at the Anniston Star in Alabama. Tye’s book, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, is the biography of two American icons – Satchel Paige, arguably the greatest pitcher ever to throw a baseball, and Jim Crow, the amalgam of Southern laws that mandated separation of the races everywhere from public bathrooms to schools and buses. Satchel was on the New York Times bestseller list, was named a Times Notable Book, and recently won two prizes – the Casey Award and the Seymour Medal – as best baseball book of 2009. Source: http://www.larrytye.com/author/ History Leroy “Satchel” Paige was the most sensational pitcher ever to throw a baseball. During his years in the Negro Leagues he fine-tuned a pitch so scorching that catchers tried to soften the sting by cushioning their gloves with beefsteaks. His career stats — 2,000 wins, 250 shutouts, three victories on the same day — are so eye-popping they seem like misprints. But bigotry kept big league teams from signing him until he was forty-two, at which point he helped propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. Over a career that spanned four decades, Satchel pitched more baseballs, for more fans, in more ballparks, for more teams, than any player in history. Source: http://www.larrytye.com/books/satchel/ Scope and Content This collection is organized in alphabetical order by subject. The author’s provenance was maintained. Larry Tye’s in-depth research process is truly demonstrated as you read through each file. Items such as book excerpts, interviews, correspondence, newspaper and journal articles. This collection gives the reader a good sense of Satchel Paige, not only as a baseball player but as a person. See Also Satchel: the life and times of an American hero”, GV865.P3.T94 2009 National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY Satchel Paige biographical file, Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY Negro League subject files, Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY Controlled Access Terms These records are indexed under the following terms in the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Library catalog, http://abner.baseballhall.org/search. Corporate Names Negro Leagues American League National League Cleveland Indians St. Louis Browns Atlanta Braves Pittsburgh Crawfords Kansas City Monarchs Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. A.B. Chandler Oral History Project, U of Kentucky Black Community Leaders Project, U of Missouri Retrosheet, Inc. Personal Names Paige, Leroy “Satchel” 1906-1982 O’Neil, Buck 1911 - 2006 Subject Headings Correspondence Interviews Newspaper clippings Statistics Biography Race and Integration Box scores Content List Box 1 Folder 1 AGE Articles, correspondence, 1948 – 2007 Folder 2 The National Pastime, No 26, May 2006, pages 106-127 Folder 3 ALASKA Articles, 1965 – 1966 Correspondence, 2007 New Anchorage Earthquakers, 1965-66, Paige, player/manager Folder 4 ALL-STAR GAMES East-West, 1933-1945, 1961, 1964 Major League, 1952 Articles, 2006 – 2007 Folder 5 Primarily East-West, 1930s – 1940s Folder 6 ALSOBROOK, David Ernest Thesis: “Alabama’s port city: Mobile during the progressive era, 1896-1917” Auburn University, PhD, 1983, pages i-vii, 1-250 Folder 7 Thesis, pages 251-486 Folder 8 ASHLAND, KY Articles, correspondence related to the 1981 Annual Negro League Reunion Folder 9 ATLANTA BRAVES Articles 1968 – 1969 Correspondence, 2006 – 2007 Folder 10 BABE RUTH Articles, 1936 Correspondence, Nov-Dec 2007 Folder 11 BALTIMORE Articles, 1930 Folder 12 BARNSTORMING/WHITES Articles, 1934 – 1951 Correspondence, 2007 10th Annual Malloy Negro League Conference remarks, Jun 15, 2001 “Ersatz Octobers: Baseball barnstorming”, Robert Cole, pages 75-103 Baseball History 4: an annual of original baseball research, c. 1991 “Hats off to Bill James’s Negro Leagues 100-best list”, John B Holway, c. 2005 Folder 13 BATTING Articles, 1942, 1945, 1954, 1957 Correspondence, Oct 2007 Folder 14 BERTHA HUNT (widow of Tom Wilson, NNL president) Articles 1987 James Hendrix - biography, resume “I remember Tom”, James Hendrix, advertisement for this book Box 2 Folder 1 BIBLIOGRAPHIES Folder 2 BIBLIOGRAPHIES Folder 3 BIRMINGHAM Articles, 1927 – 1929 Book excerpts, “Bases loaded with history”, Timothy Whitt, c. 1995 Correspondence, 2007 – 2008 Folder 4 BISMARCK Articles, 1933 – 2007 Correspondence, 2006 – 2008 Folder 5 BLACK PRESS Articles, 1937, 2002 Wendell Smith biography, 18 pages “Black Writers/Black Baseball”, Jim Reisler, c. 1994 An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters who covered the Negro Leagues “The Black Press: the assault on professional baseball’s colored line, Oct 1945-Apr 1947” Bill Weaver, 303-317 Phylon Atlanta University Review of Race & Culture, 4th Quarter, Winter 1979 Folder 6 BOOKS Five reviews Correspondence, March 2007 Folder 7 BOXING David Hawkins Folder 8 BUCK O’NEIL “Bearing Witness to Blackball”, Daniel A Nathan Journal of American Studies, 2001 “Unforgettable Satchel Paige”, Buck O’Neil Readers Digest, April 1984 Interview transcript of Buck O’Neil, no date Interview transcript of Buck O’Neil, by Bob Edwards, NPR, Oct 22, 1997 Folder 9 BURLEY, DAN Articles written by Burley, 1935 – 1941, 1959 Folder 10 CALIFORNIA Article, 1934 Correspondence, 2007 (1) Folder 11 CANADA “Satch in Saskatchewan”, Saskatchewan Hall of Fame, c. 1996 Correspondence, 2007 Folder 12 CARTOONS/DRAWINGS 1935, 1941-1944, 1965, 1973-1974 Folder 13 CHARITY Articles, 1942, 1965 Folder 14 CHATTANOOGA Articles, 1926 – 1927 Correspondence, 2007 Folder 15 CHRONOLOGY Negro League, 1932 – 1948 “Drawing the Color Line, 1860s – 1890s” Folder 16 CIRCUS “Lincoln Giants split with Baltimore team”, NY Times, July 6, 1930 Folder 17 CIVIL RIGHTS Letter to the editor by J. Walter Bell, NY Times, Aug 2, 1948 The Journal of Negro Education, Summer 1963, pages 255-257, John Lovell, Jr. Folder 18 CLEVELAND INDIANS Articles, 1948, 1960 – 1961 Correspondence, 2007 Bertha Gibson vs. White Sox BB Club, court documents, 1949 – 1951 Folder 19 COMPETITION Other ‘Paige’ authors Correspondence, 2007 (1), 2008 (1) Folder 20 CRAWFORDS Articles, 1931 – 1933, 2007 (1) “The Pittsburgh Crawfords”, Jim Bankes, c. 2001, excerpts Box 3 Folder 1 DAILY WORKER (US Communist Party newspaper) Lester ‘Red’ Rodney Articles, 1937, 1952 Correspondence, 2006 Interview with Rodney, International Socialist Review, Issue 35, May-Jun 2004 “Baseball on the Radical Agenda”, Kelly E Rusinack, chapter 10, pages 75-84 Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream, c. 1998 “Lester Rodney, the Daily Worker, and the Integration of Baseball”, Tom Gallagher The National Pastime, N19, 1999, pages 77-80 “A Sickening Red tinge: the Daily Worker’s fight against White Baseball”, c. 2001 Kelly Rusinack, Chris Lamb Cultural Logic, V3, N1, Fall 1999 Village Voice, V42, issue 23, Jun 10, 1997, page 122 Folder 2 DIZZY DEAN Articles, 1934 – 1945 Folder 3 DEATHS 2006 deaths from SABR-L Digest, Feb 11, 2007 Folder 4 DENVER TOURNEY Articles, Aug 1934 Folder 5 DIMAGGIO Articles, 1935 – 1948 Folder 6 DIVORCE Articles, 1943 Court documents, Jul-Aug 1943 Folder 7 DIXON, PHIL (author) Correspondence, 2006 – 2007 1934 day-by-day statistics The Monarchs, 1920-1938, by Dixon, excerpts Folder 8 DOBY “Satchel Paige’s Phily Stars tackle Cubans”, Chicago Defender, Jul 8, 1950 Folder 9 DRIVING Articles, 1937 – 1958, 1972 Correspondence, 2007 (1) Folder 10 DRUM ISLAND Buck O’Neil retells his visit to Drum Island with Paige Short history of Drum and Sullivan islands Folder 11 ECONOMICS Articles, 1944, 1953, 1963, 1997, 2007 “The Cost of Discrimination: a study of MLB”, Andrew Hanssen Southern Economic Journal, V64, N3, Jan 1998, pages 603-627 “Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson?” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 2001 “Employer Costs and Discrimination: the case of baseball”, James Gwartney, Charles Haworth The Journal of Political Economy, V82, N4, Jul-Aug 1974, pages 873-881 “Fair Pay for Fair Play: a preliminary analysis of race-based wages in MLB and the Negro Leagues”, Michael Haupert Business of Baseball Newsletter, March 2007 Folder 12 EDITS Folder 13 EFFA MANLEY Articles,