Little League baseball jersey worn by Justine Siegal
date: label: date made
content: 1970s
name: label: user
content: Siegal, Justine
label: maker
content: Russell Athletic
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Little League baseball jersey is white with light green baseball sleeves and a green collar. "Athletics" is written in script across the front of the jersey. This was worn by the donor, Justine Siegal, as one of two girls on her little league t-ball team in 1982 long before girls were a regular sight on the baseball diamond. She went on to play through high school although discouraged to do so from male coaches and players at every level. Siegal went on to coach youth baseball, forming an all-girls team to compete in a national boy’s tournament in 2002 and became the first female coach at the collegiate level from 2008-2010. Always advocating for equity in sport, especially through baseball, Siegal caught the attention of several major league baseball teams. She became the first female coach of a professional men’s baseball team in the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball in 2009 and in 2011 was the first woman to pitch batting practice to the Cleveland Indians of MLB. The Oakland As hired her in 2015 to coach in their instructional league making her the first female coach employed by a major league team.
label: Description (Brief)
content: At 23, Siegal founded the nonprofit Baseball for All, “an organization that works toward gender equity in youth baseball by strongly encouraging and providing opportunities for girls to participate in baseball. The program works on giving girls the sources needed to participate in the sport whether it means becoming a player, coach, umpire, or filling other baseball roles in hopes that other communities will extend their baseball programs to girls.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Little League
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0070.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0070
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0070.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jersey, baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball jersey
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 14 1/2 in; 60.96 cm x 36.83 cm