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Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and humanitarian. His wife, Sylvia Fine (1913-1991), was an American lyricist, composer, writer, lecturer, and producer. The collection, which documents their lives and careers, contains printed and manuscript music, scripts, correspondence, business and financial papers, promotional and publicity materials, speeches, oral history transcripts, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, posters, honors, and realia.

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Sportswriter, baseball executive, and author. Correspondence, drafts of books and articles, notes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating primarily to Mann's biography of Branch Rickey and to Rickey's contributions to professional baseball.

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Major league baseball manager and executive. Correspondence, family papers, speeches and writings, memoranda, scouting and other reports, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers, chiefly from 1936 to 1965, documenting Branch Rickey's career.

Abstract Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Correspondence, fan mail, financial and legal records, drafts of speeches and writings, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson as the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century and to various business and civic activities following his baseball career, including his service as a corporate executive and his participation in the civil rights movement,...

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Baseball player. Photographs, correspondence, financial material, and printed matter primarily documenting Nakase’s athletic pursuits and Japanese American family and community life in Southern California from the 1940s to 1960s.

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Native American (Sac and Fox) athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Correspondence and an unpublished manuscript by Associated Press sportswriter Orlo Robertson, with Patricia Thorpe, related to Thorpe's life.

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Media guides and press kits documenting professional and university sports from the 1950s to the early 2000s.