Baseball Americana will be a unique celebration of our national pastime, held at the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress. The Library's baseball collections are the largest in the world. This has led to the creation of a beautifully illustrated book, Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress, to be published by HarperCollins on September 29, 2009. In addition, the Library's American Folklife Center has recently acquired a collection of one-of-a-kind oral history interviews with former professional players and managers, organized and conducted by a former commissioner of Major League Baseball, Fay Vincent. The symposium, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and coordinated with the Library?s Publishing Office's release of the new book, celebrates these milestones in the Library?s relationship with baseball.

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