Baseball Glove used by Chet Brewer
date: label: date made
content: before 1920
name: label: user
content: Brewer, Chester
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Chester Arthur “Chet” Brewer (1907-1990) used this firstbaseman’s glove in an itinerant baseball career that took him all over North and Central America, and Asia, from 1924 to 1952, playing for more than a dozen teams. In the United Sates he was best known as a pitcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, a Negro League team. Brewer is considered one of the top 20 pitchers in Negro League history, playing in two East-West All Star Games, 1934 and 1947. He was one of the first African American players to play integrated baseball, signing to pitch for Crookson, MS in 1931. By winning every game that year he showed many Mid-westerns what a top black pitcher could do for an otherwise ordinary team. After retiring from play, he scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1954 to 1974.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: negro leagues
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Chester "Chet" Brewer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0203.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0203
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0203.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Glove
label: Object Name
content: baseball glove
label: Object Name
content: glove, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rawhide (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 1/2 in x 3 in; 30.48 cm x 24.13 cm x 7.62 cm