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Bob Broeg donated his personal papers to the Western Historical Manuscripts
Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on October 31, 1989, and
an addenda on September 17, 1990. (See also collection # 243).
Bob Broeg grew up in south St. Louis. He attended Mount Pleasant grade school and Cleveland High School, and was a 1941 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. During World War II he served in the Marines. His first wife, Dorothy Carr Broeg, died in 1975. In 1977 he remarried, to Lynette Anton Berg.
Broeg joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on July 14, 1945, and began covering baseball in 1946. He did this for 13 years, becoming well-known to local sports fans for the convoluted style of his articles and columns. He also covered University of Missouri football extensively.
Broeg became the Post's sports editor in 1958, succeeding his boyhood idol, J. Roy Stockton. In 1985 he retired as sports editor and became a contributing sports editor, a position he still holds.
In 1971 the UMC School of Journalism made Bob the first sportswriter to receive its prestigious gold medal for journalistic achievement. In 1985 he was inducted into the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Bob Broeg Collection contains drafts, rewrites, and corrected copies of manuscripts written by Broeg. These include a book about Stan Musial; The Batting Order: Baseball From a Different Angle; a history of the Missouri Tigers called Ol' Mizzou, a Story of Missouri Football (1974); a book about Broeg's hero, Frank Frisch, called The Pilot Light and the Gas House Gang (1980); and both the 1983 and 1986 editions of My Baseball Scrapbook. The collection also has miscellaneous other items donated by Broeg, which are noted in the folder list.
FOLDER LIST
BOX 1 (045265)
FOLDERS 1-19
1. Stan Musial Manuscript--white copy, chaps. 1-13
2. Stan Musial Manuscript--white copy, chaps. 14-26
3. Stan Musial Manuscript--white copy, chaps. 27-31
4. The Batting Order: Baseball From a Different Angle--white copy, title page, preface, chaps. 1-4
5. The Batting Order--white copy, chaps. 5-8
6. The Batting Order--white copy, chaps. 9-12
7. The Batting Order--white copy, chaps. 13-14, 15 (with extra copy of pp. 16-22), 16 (with extra copy of last 15 pp. plus extra copy of entire chapter)
8. Ol' Mizzou, a Story of Missouri Football (1974)--first draft, chaps. 1-10
9. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--pink copy, chaps. 1-4, 11-15 (chaps. 5-10 missing as of 2/17/94)
10. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--pink copy, chaps. 16-18
11. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--pink copy, chaps. 20-27 (chap. 19 missing as of 2/17/94)
12. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--white copy, chaps. 1-9 plus substitute versions of chaps. 2-4
13. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--white copy, chaps. 10-15
14. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--white copy, chaps. 16-19
15. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--white copy, chaps. 20-27
16. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--yellow copy, chaps. 1-4, 11-13 (chaps. 5-10 missing as of 2/22/94)
17. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--yellow copy, chaps. 14-18
18. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--yellow copy, chaps. 19-27
19. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--miscellaneous items relating to ms.; letters from Bill Callahan to Broeg (7/19/74, 7/22/74); final copy (yellow), jacket text, text of chaps. 1-9
BOX 2 (045271)
FOLDERS 20-34
20. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--final copy (yellow), chaps. 10-19
21. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--final copy (yellow), chaps. 20-24; handwritten index to entire book
22. Ol' Mizzou (1974)--final copy (white), chaps. 1-7
23. Memo from Broeg on death of Paul Dean (1981); Society for American Baseball Research (S.A.B.R.) proposal for minor-league honor roll (1980); The Pilot Light and the Gas House Gang (1980)--miscellaneous items relating to ms.; pink copy, chaps. 1-12
24. Pilot Light (1980)--pink copy, chaps. 13-19
25. My Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--dedication, table of contents, partial list of chapter heads, preface (Broeg), intro plus substitute versions (J. Garagiola); white copy, chaps. 1-9, 11-15 (chap. 10 missing as of 3/1/94)
26. Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--white copy, chaps. 17-37
27. Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--white copy, chaps. 38-54
28. Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--projected subject list; assorted photo captions; final copy, chaps. 1-11, 13, 15-21 29. Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--final copy, chaps. 22-41
30. Baseball Scrapbook (1983 ed.)--final copy, chaps. 43-45, 47-49, 51-54
31. Baseball Scrapbook (1986 ed.)--additional chapters not in 1983 edition--all with titles but in no particular order
32. Baseball Scrapbook (1986 ed.)--untitled duplicates of most chapters in f. 31 (in same order); additional chapters not in f. 31
33. Baseball Scrapbook--pink copy, assorted chapters
34. Baseball Scrapbook--pink copy, assorted "blurbs" at beginnings of chapters (few); Super Stars of Baseball--list of corrections to be made to printed copy; last typed page of Broeg column on Gussie Busch dated 3/13 (year?); Ed Wilks column on Tom Seaver (7/22/75)
INDEX
Baseball, f. 1-7, 23-34
Broeg, R., f. 1-34
Football, f. 8-22
Frisch, Frank, f. 23-24
Gas House Gang, f. 23-24
Musial, Stan, f. 1-3
Sports Writing, f. 1-34
St. Louis (baseball) Cardinals, f. 1-7, 23-34
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, f. 1-34
University of Missouri football, f. 8-22
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