Baseball catcher's mask
date: label: date made
content: before 1961
notes: label: Description
content: Birdcage style baseball catcher's mask. Mask has a metal wire face by mask attached to leather pads at temple, cheeks and chin. Elastic strap at back is intended to hold the mask on the player's head.
label: Description
content: Not much is known of the origins of this mask. It was transferred to the Museum in 1961 by the US Postal Services Dead Letter Office.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.61.397
label: catalog number
content: 61.397
label: accession number
content: 272513
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mask, Catcher's
label: Object Name
content: mask
label: Object Name
content: catcher's mask, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 in x 6 in; 26.035 cm x 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm