Lewis A. Levey Family Baseball Collection

The Lewis A. Levey Family Baseball Collection contains baseball ephemera, including media guides, game programs, team yearbooks, schedules, tickets, and league directories. It covers scorecards and tickets of amateur, minor, and major leagues. It also includes a wide variety of items, such as stadium giveaways, bobblehead dolls, baseball cards, and autographed bats and baseballs.

Spanning the early 1900s to the present, the majority of the collection focuses on baseball, specifically the St. Louis Cardinals from the 1940s to the present. It also documents numerous other teams in the St. Louis region and materials from across the United States, encompassing major leagues (including the Negro Major League), minor leagues, and amateur leagues, like the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The Lewis A. Levey Family Baseball Collection highlights the evolution of the sport in post-war America and indicates the rise in importance of sports in the culture and economy of the United States. This collection is part of the Lewis A. Levey Family Collection on Sports and Culture. To see more, visit the Sports & Culture Collections’ Lewis A. Levey Family Collection on Sports and Culture.