Sports & Leisure - Overview
The nation's passion for sports is obvious every day—at NASCAR races, kiddie soccer matches, and countless other contests. From a handball used by Abraham Lincoln to Chris Evert's tennis racket to a baseball signed by Jackie Robinson, the roughly 6.000 objects in the Museum's sports collections bear witness to the vital place of sports in the nation's history. Paper sports objects in the collections, such as souvenir programs and baseball cards, number in the hundreds of thousands.
Leisure collections encompass a different range of objects, including camping vehicles and gear, video games, playing cards, sportswear, exercise equipment, and Currier and Ives prints of fishing, hunting, and horseracing. Some 4,000 toys dating from the colonial period to the present are a special strength of the collections.
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Man O'War Statuette
- Description
- Sculpted by Frederic G. R. Roth (1940), this bronze statuette depicts Man OWar (1917–1947), often considered Americas greatest racehorse. The thoroughbred, affectionately called Big Red, triumphed at some of the country's greatest tracks, from Belmont to Saratoga. His progeny included some of the great champions, including War Admiral and Seabiscuit.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1940
- associated dates
- 1962 05 10
- user
- Sheaffer, Daniel M.
- Sheaffer, Mrs. Daniel M.
- maker
- Roth, Frederic G. R.
- ID Number
- CL*63.1018
- accession number
- 242358
- catalog number
- 63.1018
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center