Baseball Centennial (1839-1939) baseball patch
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: referenced
content: Doubleday, Abner
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sleeve patch worn on Major League Baseball uniforms during the 1939 season. The patch commemorated <i>The centennial of Baseball</i> although baseball had been played in various forms before 1839. The anniversary gave credence to the myth that Abner Doubleday should receive credit for formalizing the rules of baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. While Doubleday's actual involvement is disputed today, he was an important figure to those who argued that baseball was strictly an invention of the United States.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 1939's <i>Centennial of Baseball</i> coincided with the opening of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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: 1999.0265.133
label: accession number
content: 1999.0265
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0265.133
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patch, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 9.8 cm; 4 1/8 in x 3 27/32 in