This month, we commemorate the arrival of Spring by highlighting the addition of several turn of the century baseball journals into the Smithsonian History, Art, and Culture (SHAC) digital collection. According to SILRA’s leading information specialist, Mike Hardy,
These books cover an early period of organized baseball in the Unites States.
Hopefully as everyone recovers from yesterday’s glut of food and presents some real boxing matches will not develop. Happy Boxing Day!
To celebrate National Roller Skating Week, we are featuring trade literature advertising Plimpton’s Patent Roller Skates.
September 21 is Miniature Golf Day. The illustration at left follows the adventures of a lost golf ball, probably on a turf course, but is still definitely in the spirit of the fun game, I mean sport, we call miniature golf or mini-golf.