Finding Aid: MS 504 - Lawrence F. O'Brien National Basketball Association Papers
Description:
This is the finding aid for the MS 504 - Lawrence F. O'Brien National Basketball Association Papers in the Springfield College Archives and Special Collections. This collection documents Lawrence F. O’Brien’s tenure as Commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1975 to 1984. More than half of the collection is comprised of governance and administrative information about the policies and procedures and day-to-day operations of the NBA. Records include the meeting agendas and minutes of the board and its committees. Also included are correspondence, financial records, marketing plans, press clippings, subject files, operations manual, memorabilia of the NBA’s 35th anniversary and printed material relating to All-Star Games as well as files related to LOB’s lobbying of Congress and the White House. Of particular note are the legal settlements and collective bargaining agreements with players especially the 1976 Oscar Robertson suit. Also of special importance are the files that comprise negotiations about television contracts. The All-Star Game materials include several photographs of banquets, and there is an audiocassette of one of LOB’s media appearances.
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