Scope and Contents The Baseball and Sports Collection consists of items relating to professional and minor league sports, high school sports, and other organized sports in St. Louis. The collection includes souvenir programs, tickets, score cards, rule books, newspaper clippings, and other sports-related items. The majority of the collection focuses on St. Louis professional baseball teams, the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns. The baseball portion of the...

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised primarily of St. Louis Cardinals baseball scorecards with a few accompanying ticket stubs collected by John Bottchen, Jr., from 1983 to 2017. The bulk of the score cards date from 1999 to 2017 and there are none for the years 1984-1985, 1987-1988, and 1990-1995. The 92 scorecards and tickets are arranged chronologically with two minor league cards appearing at the end of the collection. During the 1998 season, St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire,...

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The collection contains printed memorabilia mostly related to the St. Louis Cardinals, including passes (1926-1957); rosters (1938, 1946); schedules (1958, 1960); World Series programs (1931-1944); an All-Star Game program (1940); and sports magazines (1936-1949). Some items relate to the St. Louis Browns baseball club. The collection also contains programs of the irregular conclaves of the Knights of the Cauliflower Ear (1937-1949).

Scope and Contents The Irv Schankman Baseball and Architecture Collection contains photographs taken or collected by Irv Schankman. Many of the photographs were likely taken for the Sporting News, which was a frequent client of Dorrill Studios, where Irv Schankman worked as a photographer. Other photographs may have been taken directly for the St. Louis Cardinals, although this is unclear.The majority of photographs focus on St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns...