# History, halls of fame and archives

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Halls of fame, libraries and archives, and handball pages from the early web.

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Links on this page were checked on 2026-11-02.

## Halls of fame and museums (6)

- [New York Handball Hall of Fame](https://www.nyhandballhalloffame.com/) (opens in a new tab): The New York Handball Hall of Fame site, maintained by its hall of fame committee with the Inner City Handball Association. It honors one-wall handball figures in New York. Our pick: Honours the figures of one-wall handball in New York, the game's home city. (New York, United States; One-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [NorCal Handball Hall of Fame (Northern California Handball Association)](https://www.norcalhandball.org/hall-of-fame) (opens in a new tab) [Official]: Hall of fame page on the Northern California Handball Association site, listing inductees from 1988 to 2015 as players and contributors. (California, United States; Four-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [Temple de la renommée](https://balleaumur.qc.ca/temple-de-la-renommee/) (Hall of Fame (Balle au Mur Québec)) (opens in a new tab) [Official]: Temple de la renommée (hall of fame) page on the Balle au mur Québec site, linked from its menu. In French. (Quebec, Canada; Four-wall, One-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [U.S. National Handball Center hall of fame](https://www.ushandballcenter.org/hall-of-fame) (opens in a new tab): The hall of fame page of the U.S. National Handball Center in Missouri, linked from the center's home page. (Missouri, United States; Four-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [USHA Hall of Fame inductees](https://www.ushandball.org/hall-of-fame-players/) (opens in a new tab): USHA Hall of Fame page for players, giving the induction criteria and the inducted players with their year of induction, from 1954 onward. (United States; Four-wall, Three-wall, One-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [USHA Handball Hall of Fame](https://www.ushandball.org/handball-hall-of-fame/) (opens in a new tab): The USHA Handball Hall of Fame page, listing the players and contributors the association has inducted. The directory links only the hall page, not individual biographies. Our pick: The USHA Handball Hall of Fame, honouring players and contributors to the American game. (United States; checked 2026-11-02)

## Libraries and archives with handball holdings (6)

- [Handball History (WPH Live TV, 2013)](https://wphlive.tv/?p=5481) (opens in a new tab): WPH Live TV post from March 2013 on the history of handball: its roots in France and Ireland, four-wall growth, the AAU, the YMCA, the USHA and the one-wall revival. (United States; checked 2026-11-02)
- [Handball magazine archives (USA Racquetball archive site)](https://archive.teamusa.com/usa-racquetball/publications/racquetball-magazine/handball-magazine-archives.html) (opens in a new tab): Archived issues of Handball magazine as PDF files, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, on the archived USA Racquetball section of the Team USA website. Our pick: Free scans of early issues of Handball magazine, the US game's journal of record. (United States; checked 2026-11-02)
- [History (GAA Handball)](https://www.gaahandball.ie/about/gaa-handball/history) (opens in a new tab) [Official]: History page on the GAA Handball site, tracing Gaelic handball from early stone-wall games, through records such as the 1527 Statute of Galway, to old courts like Ballinrobe's of 1776. Our pick: The governing body's own account of Gaelic handball's long history in Ireland. (Ireland; Irish 60x30, Irish 40x20, Wallball; checked 2026-11-02)
- [History of the USHA collegiate nationals](https://www.ushandball.org/history-of-collegiate-nationals/) (opens in a new tab): USHA page on the history of the collegiate national championships, first held in 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, with the champions list and recent results. (United States; Four-wall, Three-wall, One-wall; checked 2026-11-02)
- [McElligott Handball Papers (Cork City and County Archives)](https://cork.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/archive/110023017) (opens in a new tab): Catalog record at Cork City and County Archives for the McElligott Handball Papers: letters, newspaper cuttings and photographs on handball in Cork in the early 20th century. Our pick: A rare public archive collection of early 20th-century handball papers from Cork. (County Cork, Ireland; Irish 60x30; checked 2026-11-02)
- [USHA history of handball](https://www.ushandball.org/about/history-of-handball/) (opens in a new tab): History of handball page on the USHA site: an essay by Tom O'Connor on the game's origins, from Irish legend to the competing claims of Spain, France and Italy. Our pick: A readable essay on the disputed origins of handball, published by the US governing body. (United States; Four-wall, Three-wall, One-wall; checked 2026-11-02)