COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes research notes, newspaper clippings, tape recordings and typed transcriptions, drafts of articles and books, and related material from Schaap's career as an author and editor. Also includes material regarding drug addiction, and research material concerning Robert F. Kennedy.
Dates
- [1962-1969?].
Creator
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access restricted to the permission of the regional history curator.
Restrictions on use:
Reproductions require the permission of the regional history curator and can be used only for research purposes. Copyright is retained by donor.
Conditions Governing Use
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage.
Conditions Governing Use
Audio visual media that has been digitized: TR-18979, TR-18980, TR-18982, TR-18983.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Schaap was born in New York City on September 27, 1934. He earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1955 and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1956. He was sports editor, then general editor, then senior editor for Newsweek from 1956-1963, and in 1964 became city editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He wrote articles for Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, and other magazines. His books include Mickey Mantle - Indispensable Yankee; Paul Hornung - Pro Football's Golden Boy; An Illustrated History of the Olympics; Instant Replay (about Jerry Kramer); RFK; and Turned On. He also edited autobiographies of Joe Namath, Frank Beard, and Tom Seaver.
Extent
11.4 cubic feet. (11.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes research notes, newspaper clippings, tape recordings and typed transcriptions, drafts of articles and books, and related material from Schaap's career as an author and editor. Also includes material regarding drug addiction and research material concerning Robert F. Kennedy.
Physical Description
Research notes, newspaper clippings, tape recordings and typed transcripts, manuscripts, and other materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, August 2018
- Authors.
- Beard, Frank.
- Drug abuse.
- Drug addiction.
- Editors.
- Hornung, Paul, 1935-
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Kramer, Jerry, 1936-
- Mantle, Mickey, 1931-1995.
- Namath, Joe Willie, 1943-
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: Illustrated history of the Olympics..)
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: Instant replay..)
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: Mickey Mantle, indispensable Yankee..)
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: Paul Hornung, pro football\'s golden boy..)
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: RFK..)
- Schaap, Dick, 1934-2001. (Title of work: Turned on..)
- Seaver, Tom, 1944-2020
- Sports journalism.
- Sports.
- Sportswriters.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- April 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu