Baseball
Baseball
- Description (Brief)
- Professional League baseball, style No. 2000, with original box. Made by the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- baseball
- date made
- 1965-1975
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Brockton
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.08
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.08
- Credit Line
- Stall & Dean (through Henry N. Jackson)
- subject
- Baseball
- Manufacturing
- Sports
- Professional
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Sport and Leisure
- Autographed Baseballs
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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