GAZETTE Volume 24, No. 2 s January 18, 2013 s A weekly publication for Library staff Obama to Take Oath on Bibles Used by King And Lincoln

By Mark Hartsell

President Barack Obama next week will again take the oath of office on the Bible, drawn from the Library of Congress collections, that President Abraham Lin- coln used at his first inauguration more than 150 years ago. Obama also used the Lincoln Bible at his first inauguration, in 2009. On Monday,

the small, burgundy volume will have a Sports Byline USA companion at the swearing-in ceremony Host Ron Barr (left) interviews former coach during a staged on the West Front of the U.S. Cap- broadcast from Iraq. itol: A Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Obama will place his hand on the Library Acquires Archive stacked Bibles as he takes the oath of office administered by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts – symbolically link- Of Historic Sports Recordings ing the president who emancipated the slaves during the Civil War with the rev- ing but a coward.’ ” erend who led the civil rights movement By Mark Hartsell Mantle, of course, didn’t quit base- a century later. ball, didn’t go back home and never “President Obama is honored to use All Mickey Mantle wanted was a pat had to work alongside Mutt in the lead these Bibles at the swearing-in ceremo- on the back and a “hang in there.” mines around Commerce, Okla. The nies,” Steve Kerrigan, president and CEO of The 19-year-old Mantle, struggling Mick played 18 seasons for the New York the Presidential Inaugural Committee, said badly in the minor leagues, had suggested Yankees, won seven World Series, was on Jan. 10 in announcing the selections. to his father that maybe he wasn’t cut out elected to the National Baseball Hall of “On the 50th anniversary of the March on for professional baseball. Fame and is considered one of the game’s Washington and 150th anniversary of the The response from Elvin “Mutt” Mantle great players. Emancipation Proclamation, this historic contained a lot more tough love than The recollection by Mantle about moment is a reflection of the extraordi- TLC: He walked into Mickey’s hotel room, his dad’s cruel-to-be-kind approach to nary progress we’ve made as a nation.” pulled out a suitcase, packed up some motivation is among more than 4,000 The Lincoln Bible, housed in the Rare clothes and dressed down his son. recorded interviews acquired last week Book and Special Collections Division, “ ‘I’m taking you home,’ ” Mickey by the Library of Congress that document, originally was purchased by William recalled his dad saying. “He said, ‘You in their own words, the experiences of Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme can go back and work in the mines with some of the most important figures in OATH, continued on page 7 me. I thought I raised a man. You’re noth- SPORTS, continued on page 4 4 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 18, 2013

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SPORTS, continued from page 1 along. Jackie [Robinson] proved that the first U.S. sports history. They Said It two years that he came into the league – he The interviews, all made between Excerpts from Sports Byline USA inter- couldn’t say nothing hardly. I think he was 1988 and 2003, are drawn from broad- views with popular sports figures: a very, very smart guy to do that. It takes casts of Sports Byline USA, a daily radio a lot of courage to say no. It takes a lot of network program based in . “You see the ball, you hit it.” courage to back up a little bit. It takes a lot Interviews recorded from 2004 to 2014 – on his hitting philosophy of courage when a man slaps you going to will be added to the collection over the next two years. back up and not hit him. That’s strong.” The recordings will be digitized at the – Mays on playing baseball in the era Library’s Packard Campus in Culpeper, of integration Va., and gradually made available to the public online at www.loc.gov. An initial “The way they behave is obviously a lot group of about two dozen will be placed different. There is a certain sense of deco- online next month. rum that you don’t see in New York growing “It’s an outstanding collection of pri- up. It’s such a different environment that I mary sources that covers the range of was taken aback by the fact that people American sports,” said Matthew Barton, thought that I was so different. There was curator of the Recorded Sound Section. this immediate clash between what they “It’s really an extraordinary opportunity thought I should act like and what I thought to go back and sample but also to study they should act like.” in-depth what some of the most important Prints and Photographs Division – John McEnroe on his introduction to figures in these sports had to say about Hank Aaron stands in front of his locker with the Milwaukee Braves the traditions of Wimbledon their own experiences.” in 1955. The interviews cover more than six decades of athletic competition staged “I knew that I was coming upon something on fields, diamonds, courts and courses that nobody else had ever done in sports, around the globe. and I knew that it was going to cause some The collection includes interviews trouble. I was preparing myself. I said, if they with great players, legendary coaches, come at me like they came at Roger Maris, I controversial executives, prominent fans was going to try to handle it a little bit better and sports pioneers, from Bill Russell to than Roger did.” to – Hank Aaron on his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s to political commentator and baseball fanatic George Will to Earl Lloyd, the Alex- home-run record andria, Va., native who in 1950 became the first African-American to play in the “A coach has the greatest ally in the world National Basketball Association. if he’ll use it. I’ve found many, many coaches The collection also contains the larg- are afraid to use it: the bench. They all like to Prints and Photographs Division est archive of audio interviews with Negro play. … You can’t be afraid to use it.” Mickey Mantle in uniform in League players in existence. – UCLA basketball coach John Wooden 1968, the final season of his career. The voice asking the thousands of questions in the interviews belongs to “A lot of people don’t know me. They don’t “I was just kind of in a fog or something. Ron Barr, a Washington, D.C., native who know Oscar Robertson. I haven’t been caught It did hurt my game when my dad died. ... started in journalism as a copy boy for using drugs. I’m not an alcoholic, and I don’t I’ve always felt like that if he would have in the 1960s, cov- do a lot of other things. This is what, usually, lived longer that I would have been much ered sports across the Potomac for the gets you a lot of attention.” better. I know I wouldn’t have been over the Alexandria Gazette and broke into radio – Basketball great Oscar Robertson hill at 33 or 34 years old.” at a station in Falls Church. – Mickey Mantle on his alcoholism and Over the course of a career covering “You had to look the other way a little bit the impact of the loss of his father to Hodg- and broadcasting sports on television in because if you didn’t you wouldn’t progress kin’s disease in 1952 Boston, and San Francisco, Barr developed the ability to draw out people in interviews. Everybody, he found, has JANUARY 18, 2013 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 5

NEWS a story to tell – even those who don’t get Barr’s first guest was baseball hall ships as basketball coach of the UCLA the glory and the big-money contracts. of famer Willie Mays, who flew in from Bruins. Once, a frustrated Reno, Nev., just for the occasion. Barr Hank Aaron and Mays discuss their player skipped out on a scheduled live broadcast his show from Iraq on about a early days in baseball, just after the era interview following a tough loss. Desper- half-dozen separate trips. He interviewed of integration got under way. ate to fill time, Barr brought on air a man Bobby Knight, the great Indiana Hoosiers “We knew that if we failed that it was he’d spotted tidying up the arena with a basketball coach, while Knight fished in going to fall upon the players that were push broom. a trout stream in Montana. coming behind us,” Aaron said. “We The man, it turned out, had worked He once got a call from a fan in didn’t have time to get angry. We had at Boston Garden for 40 years and seen Nebraska who wanted to discuss Corn- time to reflect on what we needed to do every great moment in the history of the husker football – then-Gov. Ben Nelson, and how we would go about doing it.” storied arena. who went on to serve two terms in the Twenty-five years after that first show, “It was a great interview,” Barr said. U.S. Senate and became an occasional when Barr wasn’t sure he’d get even one In 1988, Barr founded Sports Byline guest on the show. phone call from a listener, Sports Byline USA as a call-in sports talk program Many of the veteran athletes reflect USA has more than 200 affiliates around broadcast over a network of only 12 sta- – with the benefit of years of hindsight – the country and the globe. tions. on their beginnings, their glory days and Barr said he is thrilled that the collec- He had no idea whether the show their dark days, and the drive that it takes tion of interviews – the product of a show would work. to compete at the highest level of sport. he’s nurtured for so many years – will be “I didn’t know if anybody would call,” “If I fail, I’ll take the blame,” Chicago preserved in the Library of Congress and Barr said. “But I knew that even if they Bulls superstar Michael Jordan once told made available to the public. didn’t call, I could always interview.” Barr. “If I succeed, I want the glory.” “I’m honored, I’m proud, and I’m As host of Sports Byline USA, Barr John Wooden describes the methods happy it has such a wonderful home,” interviewed all kinds of people in all that helped him mold young men into a Barr said. “It’s a little bit like having a kinds of situations. team – and win 10 national champion- child and knowing that it’s growing up.” X

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