This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Baseball books show spring signs in Ottawa Library catalog
Mike Webber notes Ottawa Library holds nine innings of baseball titles spanning genres from mystery series around Mickey Rawlings to fielding surveys. Prominent works include Babe Ruth biographies, W P Kinsella fantasies, and James and Ritter histories, plus SABR guidance.
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United States
Troy Loos
Mickey Rawlings
Ebbets Field
Mickey
Casey Stengel
Stephen King
Tom Gordon
Zane Grey
Grey
W.P. Kinsella
Kinsella
Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Chicago Cubs
Tinker
Ottawa Library
Royals
Whitey Herzog
Whitey
Buck O’neil
Buck
Satchel Paige
Jackie Robinson
Cobb
Tommy Lee Jones
Robert Wuhl
al Stump
Babe Ruth
Babe
Robert W. Creamer
Creamer
Lawrence S. Ritter
Joe Wood
Kansas
Chief Meyers
Fred Snodgrass
America
Universal Baseball Association, Inc
J. Henry Waugh
Hell
Billy Martin
Texas Rangers
Mike Shropshire
Hunter S. Thompson
Shropshire
Kansan
Bill James
RHBA
Ty Cobb
Earl “Oil” Smith
Bubbles Hargrave
SABR
The
Society For American Baseball Research
Sabr.org