Inquiry Practice #1: Baseball

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Students will analyze ten sources from the Library of Congress and then answer the inquiry question: how has baseball changed over time. 

Instructions

Question: How has baseball changed over time?

Type your below all of the sources. Make sure to follow the writing rubric.

After looking at all of the sources below, you will choose THREE of the sources to complete the Historical Thinking Worksheet. This worksheet will be provided in class.  

Source #1: A Little Pretty Pocket Book
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : by Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his bookstore, 1787.

Click here for source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2003juv05880/?sp=51 

It reads:
BASE-BALL:
The ball once struck off,
Away flies the boy,
To the next destined post,
And then Home with Joy.

Source #2: The Ball Game
United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1898

THIS IS A VIDEO SOURCE. YOU MUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH IT! 

Click here for the source:
https://www.loc.gov/item/00563587/

Source #3: The Tacoma Times
Three Indian Stars of Baseball; The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, WAshington) 1913

IN ORDER TO READ THE SOURCE, CLICK BELOW.

Click here for the source:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1913-06-03/ed-1/seq-2/

Source #4: The Ball Team
Composed mainly of glass workers. Indiana. Aug. 1908. L.W.H.

Click here for the source:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/nclc.01159/

Source #5: Champions of America/Williamson Brooklyn
Brooklyn, [New York] : c1865.

Click here for the source and background info:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.09310/

Source #6: New York female "Giants"
c1913 July 11

Click here for the source and background info:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.18462/

Source #7: First African American World Series
First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r], K.C.

Click here for the source and background info:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.18576/

Source #8: In the Bleechers
Marvin E. Newman, photographer. Crowd at Milwaukee County Municipal Stadium during Braves baseball game, September 12, 1956. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Click here for the source:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/baseball-americana/about-this-exhibition/at-the-ballpark/

Source #9: Strat-O-Matic: The Fantasy League Prequel
Strat-O-Matic Baseball, 1979. Collection of Terence J. Flannery

Click here for the source:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/baseball-americana/about-this-exhibition/the-art-and-science-of-baseball/the-measure-of-the-game/strat-o-matic-the-fantasy-league-prequel/

Source #10: A Perfect Game
Official Program: Yankees—Dodgers 1956 World Series, 1956. Courtesy of L. Stanley Elsas

Click here for the source and background info:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/baseball-americana/about-this-exhibition/at-the-ballpark/the-ballpark-community/a-perfect-game/