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.
"Sports & Leisure - Overview" showing 2 items.
Baseball, signed by the 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers
- Description
- Baseball signed by the 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers. That season the Dodgers finished 97-65, 1st in the National League, winning the World Series over the Minnesota Twins 4 games to 3.
- Autographs include Ron Fairly; Nate Oliver; Howie Reed; John Kennedy; Sandy Koufax; Don LeJohn; Maury Willis; Ron Perranoski; Hector Valle; Bill Singer; Jim Lefebvre; Derell Griffith; Jeff Torborg; Bob Miller; Lefty Phillips; Nick Willhite; Claude Osteen; Wally Moon.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1965
- associated institution
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- maker
- Spalding
- ID Number
- 1984.0228.01
- accession number
- 1984.0228
- catalog number
- 1984.0228.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Baseball, signed by the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
- Description
- Baseball signed by the 1960 World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. That season the Pirates won the National League with a record of 95-59. They defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series 4 games to 3.
- Autographs include Bill Mazeroski; Don Hoak; Elroy Face; Dick Groat; Hal Smith; Vinegar Blend Mizell; Harvey Haddix; Smoky Burgess; Bob Skinner; Bill Virdon; Dick Stuart; Roberto Clemente; Bob Friend; Vern Law.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960
- signer
- Clemente, Roberto
- associated institution
- Pittsburg Pirates
- maker
- Spalding
- ID Number
- 1983.0347.03
- accession number
- 1983.0347
- catalog number
- 1983.0347.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center