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Descriptive Summary
Title: Richard P. Weber Football, Baseball, and Boxing Scrapbooks
Dates: 1930s
Collection Number: 026
Creator/Collector:
Weber, Richard P.
Extent: 3 flat oversize boxes (3 linear feet)
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: This consists of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to baseball, football, and boxing in the 1930s.
Language of Material: English
Access
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
Publication Rights
Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise,
Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher
must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility
for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or
executors.
Preferred Citation
Richard P. Weber Football, Baseball, and Boxing Scrapbooks . Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special
Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Acquisition Information
Gift of Richard P. Weber. Accession number: 1997.39
Scope and Content of Collection
This small collection consists of three scrapbooks of clippings from newspapers, mostly from the Los Angeles area, on boxing,
baseball, and football during the 1930s. Richard P. Weber collected the clippings and put them in the scrapbooks, mostly likely
during the 1930s. The scrapbooks are a bounty of information about these sports in Depression-Era America. The scrapbook
on baseball, for example, contains numerous articles on minor league players and games, documenting what was then an important
sport on the local scene. Both famous names and those less famous occur in the articles: Pepper Martin, Lou Gehrig, John
McGraw, Connie Mack, among the famous; Joe Moore and Ossoe Bluege, among the less famous. A scorecard from old Wrigley Field
is with the baseball scrapbook, and the football scrapbook includes a program for the 1939 Rose Bowl. The football scrapbook
is particularly strong on football at the University of Southern California and also covers professional football at a time
when it was in its infancy. The boxing scrapbook contains numerous articles on the first Max Schmeling-Joe Louis fight (1936).
In short, the scrapbooks depict well the sports scene of an America that has now disappeared.
The three scrapbooks are arranged in the following manner: Box 1: Football (93 leaves); Box 2: Boxing (42 leaves); Box 3:
Baseball (108 leaves). They have been separated from their original binders for preservation reasons.
Indexing Terms
Football -- United States -- History
Baseball -- United States -- History
Boxing -- United States -- History