Baseball in the Vault: July 2012

Monday, July 2, 2012

The National Pastime - SABR Publication Archive

Baseball may be a game, but that does not preclude it from scholarly study.

SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research offers an almost complete run of its annual journal The National Pastime, from 1982 to 2009. A convention-focused publication, The National Pastime offers unique perspectives on the variety of geographic regions that have played host to the SABR convention over the years and is available digitally through SABR's website to members and non-members alike.

The National Pastime serves as a "literary outlet for SABR members to publish their research, in comparison to the more statistically inclined Baseball Research Journal" (SABR site)

Read issues of The National Pastime - The National Pastime Archive

Why is there a baseball in the vault???

No, it's not because a kid hit a ball through the archive's window!

Rather, there is a baseball in the vault because baseball's past is America's past and America's past is preserved in the vaults of archival repositories across this country. Everyone knows about the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and its immense collections of artifacts and archival records, but other repositories also hold unique materials relating to our nation's collective baseball memory.

Baseball in the Vault aims to highlight the history of baseball through the lens of the priceless baseball photos, documents, recorded media and memorabilia that are preserved and made accessible in public archives and personal collections across the United States.