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The Baseball Playing Career series primarily documents Bouton’s career as a pitcher in Major League Baseball, and on various minor league, semi-professional, and amateur baseball clubs.
Material types include contracts, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, schedules, baseball cards, clippings, programs, yearbooks, scorecards, tickets, and roster sheets. Digital materials include videos and radio broadcasts.
Arranged alphabetically by subject. The file structure of the digital content has been maintained as received.
BOX 98 Alacranes de Durango (baseball team), 1977 See also Container OV 2, same heading
BOX 98 "All 'Bout Bouton," fan club newsletter, 1963-1966
BOX 98 Amarillo Gold Sox, 1961 See also Container OV 1, Texas League All-Star Game souvenir print
BOX 98 American League Red Book, 1976
BOX 98 Atlanta Braves, 1977-1980 See also Container OV 7, Plaque, "Come-Back Award of the Year"
DF Atlanta Braves, video of game appearances (1978), 2005
Digital ID: mss86270_173_133
Digital ID: mss86270_173_134
BOX 98 Baseball card contracts and background, 1959-1969, 2000
BOX 98 Baseball cards, 1963-2004
BOX 98 Baseball Reliquary, 1999-2002
DF Baseball Reliquary, 2001
Digital ID: mss86270_173_087
BOX 98 Comeback with Savannah Braves and Atlanta Braves, photographs and video, 1978
BOX 99 Contracts and contract negotiations, 1958-1978 See closed Container X 104, same heading
(4 folders)
BOX 99 Grensboro Yankees, 1960
BOX 99 Houston Astros, 1969-1970
(2 folders)
BOX 99 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Cleveland, Ohio, 1963
BOX 99 Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, 1988-1994, 2013
BOX 99 Major League Baseball Players Association, 1963, 1969, 2009
BOX 99 Major League Baseball Properties, 1993-1994
BOX 99 Metropolitan Baseball League
BOX 99 1972
BOX 100 1989-1992
(4 folders)
DF Metropolitan Baseball League, 1998
Digital ID: mss86270_173_008
BOX 100 Miscellaneous photographs, 1959-1997 See also Container OV 2, same heading
BOX 100 Miscellaneous printed matter, 1960-2009
BOX 100 New York Baseball Writers' Association of America, 1963-1971
BOX 100 New York Yankees
BOX 100 Miscellany, 1959-1968, 1979-1983, 1998 See also Container OV 2, Poster, cystic fibrosis campaign
BOX 100 Old Timers Day, 1998, 2018 See also Container OV 1, Poster, jersey
(2 folders)
DF Old Timers Day (1998), 2001
Digital ID: mss86270_173_174
BOX 101 Photographs, 1962-1968, undated See also Container OV 1, same heading
(8 folders)
BOX 101 Programs
BOX 101 1962-1963
BOX 102 1964-1967
BOX 102 Schedules, 1962-1968
BOX 102 Spring guidebook, 1963, 1967
DF Starting debut, radio broadcast, 1962, May 6
Digital ID: mss86270_173_156
Digital ID: mss86270_173_157
Digital ID: mss86270_173_158
Digital ID: mss86270_173_159
BOX 102 World Series
DF Clippings (1964), 2001
Digital ID: mss86270_173_117
BOX 102 Programs, 1962-1964
(2 folders)
DF Radio broadcasts, 1963
Digital ID: mss86270_173_139
Digital ID: mss86270_173_140
Digital ID: mss86270_173_141
DF Radio broadcasts, 1964
Digital ID: mss86270_173_109
Digital ID: mss86270_173_110
Digital ID: mss86270_173_111
Digital ID: mss86270_173_142
Digital ID: mss86270_173_143
Digital ID: mss86270_173_144
Digital ID: mss86270_173_145
DF Video, 1963
Digital ID: mss86270_173_176
BOX 102 Yearbooks, 1962-1968
(2 folders)
BOX 102 Pitching tips, 1968
BOX 102 Portland Mavericks, 1975-1977
BOX 102 Savannah Braves, 1978-1979 See also Container OV 7, Plaques, Savannah Braves
BOX 103 Seattle Pilots, 1969-1970 See also Container OV 6, Pennant, Seattle Pilots
(2 folders)
DF Seattle Pilots, digital files
"Go Go You Pilots," song, 1969
Digital ID: mss86270_173_068
Digital ID: mss86270_173_121
Radio broadcast, 1969
Digital ID: mss86270_173_113
Digital ID: mss86270_173_114
Seattle Pilots: Short Flight Into History, documentary, 2010
Digital ID: mss86270_173_149
BOX 103 Statistics, circa 1959-1978, 2004 See also Container OV 6, Poster, box score from first win
BOX OV 8-OV 38 Scrapbooks, 1958-1978
The Scrapbooks largely consist of clippings and other printed matter that document Bouton’s life in baseball from high school to his comeback with the Atlanta Braves, in addition to other major events in his life from 1958 to 1978.
Materials types include clippings, itineraries, schedules, tickets, photographs, notes, programs, correspondence, scorecards, roster sheets, articles, certificates, and memoranda.
Arranged chronologically by year.
BOX OV 8 1958-1961 , high school and minor league baseball
BOX OV 9 1960-1961 , minor league baseball, Greensboro Yankees and Amarillo Gold Sox.
BOX OV 10-11 1962 , New York Yankees
BOX OV 12-13 1963 , New York Yankees
BOX OV 14 1963-1964 , New York Yankees, World Series
BOX OV 15-16 1964 , New York Yankees
BOX OV 17 1964-1965 , New York Yankees, World Series
BOX OV 18 1964-1965 , New York Yankees
BOX OV 19 1965-1966 , New York Yankees
BOX OV 20 1967-1969 , New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros
BOX OV 21 1968 , New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots
BOX OV 22 1969 , Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros
BOX OV 23 1970 , Houston Astros
BOX OV 24 1970 , Houston Astros, Ball Four (book)
BOX OV 25-26 1970 , Ball Four (book)
BOX OV 27 1970 , Eyewitness News, WABC-TV
BOX OV 28-29 1970-1973 , Ball Four (book)
BOX OV 30 1970-1976 , Semi-professional baseball
BOX OV 31 1971-1973 , Eyewitness News, WABC-TV
BOX OV 32 1971-1973 , I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally
BOX OV 33 1972 , Politics, Democratic National Convention
BOX OV 34 1973-1974 , WCBS-TV
BOX OV 35 1975 , Portland Mavericks
BOX OV 36 1976 , Ball Four (television program)
BOX OV 37 1977 , Knoxville White Sox
BOX OV 38 1978 , Comeback with Savannah Braves and Atlanta Braves
BOX X 104 Closed, 1959-1978
The Closed series contains unredacted contracts from various professional and semi-professional baseball clubs. Redacted copies accessible for research use in the Baseball Playing Career series.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the items were separated.
BOX X 104 Baseball playing career, contracts and contract negotiations, 1959-1978 (Container 99, same heading)
BOX OV 1-OV 38 Oversize, 1958-2018
Material types include posters, paintings, drawings, blueprints, photographs, games, artifacts, plaques, and product prototypes.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were separated.
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