Law Library of Congress Interview With Michael Goodson, Baseball Law Expert

In Custodia Legis, the blog of the Law Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., has posted an interview this week with Michael Goodson, Collection Services Intern whose job is to identify U.S. and foreign legal collection items related to baseball and the law for a major library exhibit next year:

"How would you describe your job to other people?
I would describe my job to other people as becoming the dedicated baseball expert of the Law Library of Congress – specializing in searching the vast legal collections for fascinating information in order to help put together the upcoming Baseball Americana exhibit (...)

What is the most interesting fact you’ve learned about the Law Library?
The Library of Congress has the most extensive baseball card as well as comics collections!"

The Law Library of Congress is the world’s largest law library, with a collection of over 2.65 million volumes from all ages of history and virtually every jurisdiction in the world.