Baseball glove used by Kelly Kiyo Matsumura
Baseball glove used by Kelly Kiyo Matsumura
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- Description (Brief)
- Even though 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American persons were held in America’s concentration camps during World War II, internees continued to play baseball behind barbed wire. In 1943, they cleared brush and trees and tamped down the dust and dirt to construct baseball diamonds. By 1944, organizers had set up inter-camp games.
- Object Name
- baseball, glove
- date made
- 1943
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 26.67 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 2016.0393.01
- accession number
- 2016.0393
- catalog number
- 2016.0393.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ralph Kumano
- subject
- Japanese Americans
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
- Exhibition
- Entertainment Nation
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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