Official Babe Ruth League Baseball
date: label: date made
content: 1956-1971
name: label: retailer
content: Stall and Dean
label: maker
content: Stall & Dean
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Babe Ruth League Baseball intended for little league play. Made by the Stall and Dean Company, Brockton, MA. Balls like this were used from the 1950s into the 1970s. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Brockton
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Manufacturing
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Autographed Baseballs
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stall & Dean (through Henry N. Jackson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0324.07
label: accession number
content: 1998.0324
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0324.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball with box
label: Object Name
content: ball with box
label: Object Name
content: baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yarn (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm