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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Baseball, signed by the Washington Senators.
- Description
- Autographed baseball from the 1930 Washington Senators of the American League. The players come from teams dating between the 1928 and 1930 seasons.
- Autographs include Bucky Harris; Bump Hadley; Sam West; Joe Judge; Sam Rice; Sam Jones; Garland Braxton; Fripo Marbury; Muddy Ruel; Goose Goslin; Ossie Bluege; Joe Cronin: Buddy Myer; Jackie Hayes; Ad Liska; Bennie Tate; Walter Johnson.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1930
- signer
- Judge, J.
- Johnson, Walter Perry
- associated institution
- Washington Senators
- maker
- A. J. Reach Co.
- ID Number
- 2000.0021.01
- catalog number
- 2000.0021.01
- accession number
- 2000.0021
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center