is there any resources for reading old sporting lifes?

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Posted By: sean

aside from buying them, are there any resourses for reading old sporting life magazines? Has anyone ever condensed them into a bound edition? Is there a website that archives them?
any help would be greatly appreciated

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

The University of Notre Dame has the entire run of Sporting Life (and Sporting News) on microform.

http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/collections/sports/baseball/

In addition, although the quality is often painfully bad, you can view The Sporting News online here: http://www.paperofrecord.com

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Posted By: sean

thanks for that! awesome!
Im suprised these havent been released in some kind of book form or arent more available online?
Sean

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Posted By: Tom Hufford

Great news for folks wanting to read back issues of The Sporting Life from the comfort of your home, without getting the microfilm.

Last year, SABR (www.sabr.org) brokered a deal with the Baseball Hall of Fame Library and the LA84 Foundation to digitize The Sporting Life and make it available to researchers, historians, and fans. This project is using the HOF Library's bound copies of TSL, which are now becoming too brittle to be used by the public at the library.

So far, digitizing of 11 years of TSL between 1897 and 1917 have been completed, and these are available for searching NOW at the LA84 Foundation website:

http://search.la84foundation.org/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&proxycustom=<HOME/&gt;

If that doesn't work, go to
http://www.la84foundation.org/ then click on "Digital Archive", then click on "Search". The Sporting Life can be accessed by checking the appropriate box.

Additional years of TSL will be added as the digitization is completed.

Please note that other resources are available at the LA84 Foundation website, including Baseball Magazine, American Golfer, etc.

SABR members can also borrow microfilm copies of The Sporting News, if you get tired of trying to use it at www.paperofrecord.com

Thanks,
Tom Hufford
SABR - Board of Directors

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I have a roll of microfilm of The Sporting Life, my recollection is that it covers the 1909 season, it goes up through September anyway. If you have access to a microfilm reader at a library then you could use it. Email me if interested.


Frank.

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Posted By: sean

wow! thanks for the help thus far
appreciate the offer Frank. Ill hafta see if I can get access to a microfilm viewer than Ill get back with ya.
One thing I noticed is that no one has post 1920 baseball magazines. Also, newspapers like the times and tribune charge an outrageous amount to access their files online. Do anyone know a solution around that?

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Posted By: Mark T

very nice...makes for good reading.

http://search.la84foundation.org/search?q=sporting+life&Author=&Keywords=&btnG=Search+LA84&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&filter=0&getfields=*&proxyreload=1&partialfields=

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Posted By: Matt

Incredible stuff! Some of the Old Sporting Life's have sections where players posted ads for tryouts:


"WANT TRIAL NEXT SEASON IN CLASS C OB D.
First base and utility man. Am a deaf mute.
Six years professional experience.
ADDRESS, WILLIAM JAMES,
522 West 25th Street,
Indianapolis, Ind.

CATCHER FAST SEMI-PRO. DESIRES ENGAGEment
with some minor league club. Address, At
Seras, 6021 St. Clalr Arenue, Cleveland, a"

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Posted By: Matt

from September 1908:
"Down South they nick-named, Joe Jackson, the Athletics new outfielder, "Shoeless Jackson" why
we cannot surmise, unless at some time he played ball in his bare feet. Pack in the '70s the famous
second baseman, Bob Addy, did that very often, as he was much troubled with sore feet."

July 18th 1914:
"Boston won the last game of the series and then took the Saturday game from the Naps. In this game the Bed Sox PRESENTED THEIR NEW PITCHES, George Ruth. Ruth arrived in Boston on Saturday morning. He went up to the park, put on a uniform nd was then informed by Carrigan that he would hive to pitch, because the manager had no one else to send in. Ruth pitched a good game and gets credit for the victory, although he was taken out of the box toward the end of the game. Leonard pitching the last two innings. Ruth came to Boston in a big deal with the Baltimore Club, of the International League. President Lannin paid more than $25,000 for pitchers Ruth and Shore and catcher Egan."