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.