Full disclosure: I am a long time member of SABR’s Bibliography Committee and for many years was one of the volunteers who helped put together The Baseball Index.
Nevertheless, it’s a great resource for locating written material in myriad forms on players, teams, executives, what have you. The researcher can look up material by player or topic. At last count, TBI contains more than 225,000 entries; there are 2,482 citations for Babe Ruth, including 1,760 articles, 378 books, and 44 book sections Here‘s an example.
The Web site describes TBI thusly:
The Baseball Index (TBI) is a free catalog to baseball literature. It encompasses books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything else that may be of interest to the baseball fan or researcher. It is an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to catalog the entirety of baseball literature, from the earliest references to the present day.
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