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Title: The Cavalcade of America: "The Baseball Centenary"
Description: Features the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, Ed Jerome, Ray Collins, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Presented in observance of the 100th Anniversary of Baseball in America. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." The story of the development of baseball in America.
Series: Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
Subject: Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Baseball
Local Identifier: program_no:162
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101660

Title: Chinese table tennis team delegate watching a baseball game through a chain-link fence
Date: 1972-04
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Table tennis players -- China; Baseball
Local Identifier: PAp11-06
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-94395
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 08)
Date: 1951-02-02
Description: Narrated by Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards (Edward Murrow ill). Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: Eric Sevareid comments on Dwight Eisenhower's address to Congress, then Congressional reactions. Senator Robert Taft speaks out against Truman Administration policies in Europe, Sam Rayburn doesn't share Taft's views. Vice President Alben Barkley talks about Rayburn's long tenure as Speaker of the House. British Prime Minister Atlee raises taxes and reaction from man on the street about meat rationing. Developments in Korea. Famine in India and Eleanor Roosevelt on why we should help out. The A-bomb in Nevada, reaction to a test by the public. National League's 75th anniversary.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Baseball; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear weapons 1884-1962; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Friendly, Fred W.; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-008
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50168
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Hear It Now (Episode 19)
Date: 1951-04-20
Description: Edited and produced by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow. Olan Tice, announcer. Content includes: General Douglas MacArthur returns and addresses Congress. Congressional reactions. Winston Churchill on possible peace in Korea. Baseball season begins. Sounds at the stadiums around the country. Voices of Honus Wagner, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Charlie Dressen, Connie Mack, Roy Campanella, Mel Allen, Branch Rickey.
Series: News programs -- Hear It Now
Subject: Baseball; Interviewing on radio; Korean War, 1950-1953; Radio programs; Radio talk shows
Subject -- Personal Name: Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Friendly, Fred W.; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Murrow, Edward R.
Local Identifier: HearItNow-019
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-50177
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

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