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Category: Sports

Hit a Library Grand Slam at August’s Baseball Family Day

Posted by: Rachel Gordon

If baseball is a highlight of your summer, join a celebration of America’s national pastime at Family Day on Saturday, August 9, 2025. The sport is well represented at the Library through one of the largest and most diverse collections of baseball-related materials in the world. Activities during the drop-in program (10:30 a.m. to 3:30 …

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Paris Olympic Games Then and Now: 1924 & 2024

Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong

Let’s celebrate the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics a century after the Games were last held there. Check out this brief history of the Games, an overview of 1924 Olympic “firsts” and related stories of American athletes featured in Library collections.

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Join Us for July Family Day, Celebrating the Olympic Games

Posted by: Rachel Gordon

Sarah Peet of the Informal Learning Office contributed research for this post.  On Saturday, July 20th, the Library of Congress’ Informal Learning Office (ILO) hosts its latest monthly, in-person family program. July’s Family Day highlights the Olympics in recognition of the 2024 Summer Games from July 26th to August 11th, and the Paralympic Games from …