Letter Requesting Equipment from the Ball and Bat Fund held for Soldiers Overseas during World War I
date: label: date made
content: 1918-09-10
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Letter written to Mr. Griffith by a Lieutenant stationed "somewhere in France" requesting sports equipment from the Ball and Bat Fund. White with black printing. The Ball and Bat Fund was set up by baseball commissioner Clark C. Griffith to raise money to send sports equipment over to the soldiers fighting in Europe during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: Subject
content: World War I
label: Subject
content: Philanthropy
label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pamela Michele Dixon in honor of Bernice Delores Eller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.3081.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 1996.3081
label: catalog number
content: 1996.3081.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in