USA Baseball Olympic pin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: USA Baseball Olympic pin. Olympic pin collecting began as early as 1900 and gained momentum at the 1936 Games. Through the 1960s pin trading was on the upswing but really took off at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games with sponsor's becoming more prevalent. Coca-Cola set up a pin trading area at the Calgary Games which gave a boost to the hobby which is still a big part of the Olympic experience.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Mr. Lou Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0265.157
label: accession number
content: 1999.0265
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0265.157
objectType: label: Object Name
content: olympic pin
label: Object Name
content: pin, olympic
label: Object Name
content: pin, summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 2.3 cm; 29/32 in x 29/32 in