Travel Bag used by Homestead Gray First Baseman Buck Leonard
name: label: associated person
content: Leonard, Walter F.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Travel bag used by Walther <i>Buck </i> Leonard
label: Description (Brief)
content: Buck Leonard (1907-1997) played professional baseball for the Homestead Grays in the Negro Leagues between 1934-1950, compiling a .345 lifetime batting average, 724 hits, 95 home runs and 550 runs batted in.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The first baseman also played in the Mexican League for Indios de Mayaguez (1940-1941,) Algondeoneros de Torreon (1951-1953,) and Durango (1955,) and played one season for the unaffiliated minor league Portsmouth Merrimacs (1953.)
label: Description (Brief)
content: In 1972 he was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: negro leagues
label: web subject
content: Sports
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Walter "Buck" Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0342.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0342.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bag, Travel
label: Object Name
content: travel bag, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 14 in x 9 in; 48.26 cm x 35.56 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (handles relaxed up): 10 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 26.67 cm x 57.15 cm x 36.83 cm