Searchable Historical Digitized Newspapers and Periodicals with Significant Pre-1950 Baseball Content by State

Free unless marked otherwise

COLORADO

http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Default/welcome.asp?skin=Colorado&QS=Skin=Colorado&e

Colorado Historic Newspapers Program, a variety of papers from before 1923

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/gasw/gasw.shtml

Student newspaper of Gallaudet, 1888-1929

http://wrlc.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/WRLC/Client.asp?Skin=WRLC&Enter=true&AppName=2

Student newspaper of American University, 1925-1996

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgpsasquery.html

Stars and Stripes, WW1 soldiers’ paper, 1918-1919

ILLINOIS

http://www2.iwu.edu/library/services/argus_digital.shtml

Illinois Wesleyan University student newspaper, 1894-present

http://contentdm.barringtonarealibrary.org/

Barrington (Ill.) Review, 1914-1930

MASSACHUSETTS

http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx

Harvard student newspaper, 1873-present

MINNESOTA

http://archive.olivesoftware.com/Archive/Skins/Winona/navigator.asp?skin=Winona&BP=OK

Three Winona newspapers, 1860-1946.

MISSOURI

http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/Default/Skins/Missouri/Client.asp?Skin=Missouri&AppName=2

An assortment of early Missouri newspapers

NEW JERSEY

http://www.atlanticlibrary.org/collections/digitized/newspapers/index.asp

An assortment of newspaper from Atlantic County, New Jersey, 1860-1923.

http://archive.olivesoftware.com/Archive/skins/Cranbury/navigator.asp?Skin=Cranbury&pub=CRN&GZ=T&BP=OK&AW=1192185983515

The Cranbury Press from Cranbury, New Jersey, 1886-1926.

NEW YORK

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

Brooklyn Eagle, 1841-1902

http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p

New York Times, 1851-1922

http://news.nnyln.org/

Many early newspapers from the northern part of New York State.

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

An assortment from New York State, including the New York Clipper.

http://shn.suffolk.lib.ny.us/

Currently includes these Suffolk County titles: Long Islander (Huntington), 1839-1859; Corrector (Sag Harbor), 1858-1871; South Side Signal (Babylon), 1870-1883; Long Island Traveler (Cutchogue), 1883-1893; Port Jefferson Echo (Port Jefferson), 1892-1904; County Review (Riverhead), 1903-1923.

http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/index.php

Cornell student newspaper, back to 1880 but there are currently gaps.

http://dpr.oclc.org/Archive/Skins/Ithaca/welcome.asp?QS=Skin%3DIthaca%26pub%3DITH%26AppName%3D2%26GZ%3DT%26BP%3DOK

Ithaca College student newspaper, 1926-on.

PENNSYLVANIA

http://edisk.fandm.edu/christopher.raab/lcdp.html

Franklin and Marshall college paper, 1915-2001, and Columbia Spy, 1830-1889.  More Lancaster county papers to come.

http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/welcome.asp?skin=collegian&QS=skin%3Dcollegian

Penn State student newspapers, 1887-1987.

http://archive.olivesoftware.com/Archive/Skins/Gettysburg/navigator.asp?Skin=Gettysburg&BP=OK&AW=1168293854218&GZ=T&AppName=2

Gettysburg college student newspaper, 1897-on.

UTAH

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/

An assortment of early Utah newspapers

WASHINGTON

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

Several early newspapers from the state of Washington.

MULTI-STATE COLLECTIONS

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

A variety of papers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia, 1900-1910; highlights include San Francisco Call, New York Sun and several Washington papers. See this page for a list of key titles.

www.newspaperarchive.com

NOT FREE: a subscription service focusing on small-town newspapers. See this page for more details.

www.paperofrecord.com

Assorted newspapers, including Sporting News and many Canadian papers. See this page for a list of key titles.

www.genealogybank.com

NOT FREE: subscription service that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Inter-Ocean. See this page for a list of key titles.

The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (recently renamed LA84 Foundation) hosts this site, which includes Outing magazine (1883-1905) and Baseball Magazine (1908-1918).

Also: Thomson Gale’s Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers and ProQuest Historical Newspaper and American Periodical Series Collections are both excellent collections. Unfortunately, you have to be a member of a library that subscribes. See this page for a list of key titles in both collections.  Another nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century periodical with good baseball coverage was Harper’s Weekly, and a number of libraries have subscriptions to a nice searchable archive of it.

CANADA
 

http://thestar.pagesofthepast.ca/

NOT FREE: Toronto Star, 1894-present

Please contact me if you know of additions or corrections to this list.