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Posted By: Tom Hufford

Great news for folks wanting to read back issues of The Sporting Life from the comfort of your home, without getting the microfilm.

Last year, SABR (www.sabr.org) brokered a deal with the Baseball Hall of Fame Library and the LA84 Foundation to digitize The Sporting Life and make it available to researchers, historians, and fans. This project is using the HOF Library's bound copies of TSL, which are now becoming too brittle to be used by the public at the library.

So far, digitizing of 11 years of TSL between 1897 and 1917 have been completed, and these are available for searching NOW at the LA84 Foundation website:

http://search.la84foundation.org/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&proxycustom=<HOME/&gt;

If that doesn't work, go to
http://www.la84foundation.org/ then click on "Digital Archive", then click on "Search". The Sporting Life can be accessed by checking the appropriate box.

Additional years of TSL will be added as the digitization is completed.

Please note that other resources are available at the LA84 Foundation website, including Baseball Magazine, American Golfer, etc.

SABR members can also borrow microfilm copies of The Sporting News, if you get tired of trying to use it at www.paperofrecord.com

Thanks,
Tom Hufford
SABR - Board of Directors