The Tulane University varsity baseball team poses for a studio portrait in 1899, the year it joined the Southern Collegiate Athletic Association consisting of 19 colleges and universities. Long believed to have originated in North America, baseball was first referred to in what is considered the first-ever children’s book published in 1744 by Englishman John Newbery. He is the namesake of the Newbery Medal, an annual literary award for distinguished contributions to children’s literature.
