Sports, 1940-1952
Quantity: 6 boxes (2.2 cubic feet) 
Scope and Content Note: Arranged into three sections: James M. Dolan Papers; John H. Mills Papers; William Stern Papers.

Dolan, James M. Papers, 1948-1952
Quantity: 4 boxes (1.6 cubic feet) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers of the assistant director of sports, consisting chiefly of correspondence, memoranda, contracts, and other material relating to the arrangements for broadcasting of sporting events. The papers are arranged into two alphabetical categories: SUBJECT FILES, which relate chiefly to internal matters, and SPORTS FILES. In addition to material on specific sports, there is also documentation here on Dolan's membership in the Sport Broadcasters Association (prominent correspondents include Bernard Baruch and Cardinal Spellman) and his superior Bill Stern.

Subject Files

Miscellany, 1948-1952

National Football Roundup, 1949-1951

NCAA Television Committee, 1949-1950

Office Procedures, undated

Prestone Scoreboard, 1951-1952

Program Bookings, 1948-1952

Ratings, 1949-1951

Reports, 1949-1951

Sales, 1950

Sports Broadcasters Association, 1948-1952

Sportsvision Inc., 1951

Spotlight on Sports, 1950

Theatre Television, 1950-1951

Sports Files

Automobile Racing, 1949-1951

Baseball

General, 1949-1952

All-Star Games, 1949-1951

Little League, 1949-1952

World Series, 1949-1951

Basketball, 1949-1950

Bicycle Racing, 1949-1950

Boxing, 1949-1952

Crew, 1949-1952

Football

College

1949-1950

1951-1952

Post-season Games, 1949-1951

Professional, 1949-1951

Golf, 1948-1952

Horse Racing

1949-1950

1951-1952

Hunt Clubs, 1949-1950

Ice Skating, 1950

LaCrosse, 1949-1950

Olympics, 1951-1952

Polo, 1949-1951

Skiing, 1949-1950

Soccer, 1949-1950

Swimming, 1949-1952

Tennis, 1949-1952

Track and Field, 1949-1951

Wrestling, 1949-1952

Mills, John H. Papers, 1951-1952
Quantity: 1 box (0.4 cubic feet) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers of the television sports producer who assumed William Garden's supervisory responsibility for the TV mobile unit in July, 1951. The papers consist of SUBJECT FILES and ASSIGNMENT FILES, both of which are arranged alphabetically by subject. The majority of this rather fragmentary section concern sports broadcasting, but there is also a script and some material relating to the Goodyear Playhouse production “Abby Discovers Manhattan” which was filmed on location by the mobile unit.

Subject Files

Daily Outgoing Correspondence, 1951 July-December

Facilities Orders, 1951 July-December

Policy and Procedures, 1951

Assignment Files

American Artists, 1951-1952

Baseball, 1951

Barkley-Bradley Speeches, 1951

Boxing, 1951

Buster Crabbe's Wild West Show, 1951

Football, 1951-1952

Frontiers of Faith, 1951

Goodyear Playhouse, 1951 October 14, “Abby Discovers Manhattan,” script by David Swift

Miscellaneous Assignments, 1951-1952

Philco TV Playhouse, 1951

Stern, William "Bill" (1907-1971). Papers, 1940-1952
Quantity: 1 box (0.2 cubic feet) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers of Bill Stern, an announcer and director of sports, chiefly consisting of scripts and partial scripts for the program Colgate Sports Newsreel of the Air. The majority of the script fragments are undated. There is also a folder of correspondence concerning NCAA football in 1952 which pertains to the responsibilities of Lindsey Nelson, the assistant director of sports who succeeded James Dolan in 1952.

Colgate Sports Newsreel of the Air, 1940-1943, 1945-1947

1940 May 26, [Sammy Snead]

1940 August 18, [Leo Durocher]

1941 February 23, [Wille Hoppe]

1941 March 16, [Ben Bernie]

1943 March 6, [Eddie Rickenbacker]

Correspondence, 1952

Kaltenborn Edits the News, 1946

Reports and Program Bookings, 1941-1949

Unidentified Script Material, undated