print email comment close "America's National Game": The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs URL: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=AmericasNationalGame&col_id=198 Description: "Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A.G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings." Also includes a brief background of the collection. From the New York Public Library (NYPL). Publisher: New York Public Library (NYPL) LII Database Information: Record 25772 created by Maria Brandt on 03/24/2008 Last modification on 03/25/2008 Published: 04/03/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25772