History, halls of fame and archives
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 (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.
- NorCal Handball Hall of Fame (Northern California Handball Association) (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.
- Temple de la renommée (opens in a new tab) (Hall of Fame (Balle au Mur Québec)) Official
Temple de la renommée (hall of fame) page on the Balle au mur Québec site, linked from its menu. In French.
- U.S. National Handball Center 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.
- USHA Hall of Fame inductees (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.
- USHA 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.
Libraries and archives with handball holdings (6)
- Handball History (WPH Live TV, 2013) (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.
- Handball magazine archives (USA Racquetball archive site) (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.
- History (GAA Handball) (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.
- History of the USHA 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.
- McElligott Handball Papers (Cork City and County Archives) (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.
- USHA 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.