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 1976 Baltimore Orioles
- Description
- Autographed baseball signed by the members of the 1976 Baltimore Orioles. That year the Orioles went 88-74, 2nd in the American League East.
- Autographs include Dyar Miller; Reggie Jackson; Lee May; Tippy Martinez; Terry Crowley; Brooks Robinson; Paul Blair; Tony Muser; Rick Dempsey; Kenny Singleton; David Duncan; Jim Palmer; Tim Nordbrook; Al Bumbry; Rudy May; Doug DeCinces; Mark Belange ; Earl Weaver; Tom Harper; Bob Bailor; Fred Holdsworth; Wayne Garland; Ross Grimsley; David Pagan; Bob Grich; Miguel Cuellar.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1976
- associated institution
- Baltimore Orioles
- maker
- Stall and Dean
- ID Number
- 1999.0265.078
- accession number
- 1999.0265
- catalog number
- 1999.0265.078
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Baseball, signed by the 1973 Baltimore Orioles
- Description
- Baseball signed by the 1973 Baltimore Orioles. That season the Orioles went 97-64, finishing 1st in the American League East before losing to Oakland in the American League Championship Series.
- Autographs include Jesse Jefferson; Brooks Robinson; Andy Etchebarren; Bob Grich; Earl Weaver; Tom Davis; Don Baylor; Al Bumbry; Paul Blair; Doyle Alexander; Jim Palmer; Frank Baker; Bob Reynolds.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1973
- associated institution
- Baltimore Orioles
- ID Number
- 1999.0265.080
- accession number
- 1999.0265
- catalog number
- 1999.0265.080
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center