Wonderboy Baseball Bat used in the Movie <i>The Natural</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1984
name: label: affiliated person
content: Redford, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden baseball bat used as a prop in the 1984 movie "The Natural" starring Robert Redford. The bat has the word "Wonderboy" printed on it in black lettering with a black lightning bolt shape. In the film, the character Roy Hobbs uses this bat in batting practice after being signed to the New York Knights as a middle-aged rookie. The film was based off of a 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Movie
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lou Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0265.129
label: accession number
content: 1999.0265
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0265.129
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball bat
label: Object Name
content: bat, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 in x 8 in; 83.82 cm x 20.32 cm