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 collection includes programs and scorecards from early baseball clubs in St. Louis. A significant amount of the baseball items consist of scorecards and programs issued by the St. Louis Browns and the St. Louis Cardinals teams. Miscellaneous early baseball items can be found in Box 1 along with many St. Louis Browns and St. Louis Cardinals items, such as tickets, stickers, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and schedules. Box 3 contains souvenir programs and scorecards, mostly from the St. Louis Cardinals with items also from the St. Louis Browns and the St. Louis Hawks professional basketball team. The collection also contains miscellaneous local sports material in Box 2 arranged by subject, including items relating to the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Rams professional football teams, the St. Louis Blues professional hockey team, the River City Rascals minor league baseball team, various St. Louis University Billikens sports, the 1965 U.S. Open at Bellerive Country Club, the professional soccer team St. Louis Stars, and the North American Hockey League team St. Louis Sting. Additional sports represented in the collection include track and field, fencing, swimming, bowling, and golf. Box 4 contains memorabilia generated by fans after the death of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, Daryl Kile. These items were donated by the Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum in 2005. The box contains memorial messages left for Kile at Busch Stadium immediately after his death in 2002.