{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks are about African Americans in baseball between 1942 and 1959 and contain clippings from a variety of newspapers. These scrapbooks focus primarily on the segregation and eventual desegregation of professional baseball, as well as daily baseball operations: player signings, trades, game recaps, and player features. Negro League teams covered include Chicago American Giants, New York Black Yankees, and Newark Eagles. African American players covered include Hank Aaron, Gene Baker, Joe Black, Willard Brown, Roy Campanella, Wes Covington, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Larry Doby, Luke Easter, Elston Howard, Monte Irvin, Sam Jethroe, Brooks Lawrence, Willie Mays, Don Newcombe, Satchel Paige, Johnny Ritchie, Jackie Robinson, Frank Robinson, Hilton Smith, Henry Thompson, Ozzie Virgil, Artie Wilson, and John Wright. Other individuals of note mentioned include Happy Chandler (commissioner of Major League Baseball), K.M. Landis (commissioner of Major League Baseball), Lee MacPhail (baseball manager), Branch Rickey (president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Abe Saperstein (baseball team owner/scout), and George Weiss (baseball executive).</p>"}