Richard P. Weber Football, Baseball, and Boxing Scrapbooks

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

Abstract: This consists of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to baseball, football, and boxing in the 1930s.

Language of Material: English

Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University.

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Richard P. Weber Football, Baseball, and Boxing Scrapbooks . Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library

Gift of Richard P. Weber. Accession number: 1997.39

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.