Baseball base manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
date: label: date made
content: 1960s-1970s
name: label: retailer
content: Stall and Dean
label: maker
content: Stall & Dean
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Square canvas base with two straps attached on either side that contain a metal washer at the ends. A round tag attached to one strap reads $5.00. According to the Stall and Dean catalogs this was the number one baseball base used during the 1960-1970s. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Brockton
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Manufacturing
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stall & Dean (through Henry N. Jackson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0324.27
label: accession number
content: 1998.0324
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0324.27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: base
label: Object Name
content: base, baseball