Now that you have your list of sources, how do you find the sources themselves? This is a problem for any research regardless of the sources he or she is trying to use. While we have provided you with a list of source references, unfortunately we cannot provide the sources themselves. TBI contains many cataloged materials that are not easily obtained and the researcher may have difficulty locating them.

The logical first place to go is one's local libraries; the larger, the better. Academic libraries, particularly those at large universities, often house excellent collections of books and periodicals. State historical societies are also fine sources for baseball publications. But even if yo