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03-23-2007, 06:42 PM
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p><br />Still in the beta stage, but of great promise<br /><br /><a href="http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/</a><br /><br />Apparently there will be much greater coverage, but "baseball" retrieves 4448 pages for the period 1900 to 1910<br /><br />Max

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03-29-2007, 09:14 AM
Posted By: <b>jP</b><p>Awesome! this is something that i had been wishing for. Finally i can trace back to early days of the california and pcl leagues. <br /><br />Best of all i can now chronicle the start of the career of Frank Arellanes <br />( Boston Americans 1908-1910 )who i found out had been involved with organized baseball in california since 1900 ! <br /><br />thank you , thank you , thank you! makes for awesome reading and historical baseball facts. best of all you can save and print the articles.<br /><br />jP<br><br>my collection: <a href="http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/obaks/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/obaks/</a>

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03-29-2007, 09:24 AM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Wow....thank you Max. I found a few interesting items in there already.