Baseball Shirt worn by Esther Lozoya of the Hollywood Bloomer Girls
date: label: date made
content: 1931
name: label: user
content: Lozoya, Esther Rafsky
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Gray baseball shirt with thin blue stripes and "Hollywood" appliqued in blue across the front. This was worn by Esther Lozoya of the Hollywood Bloomer Girls in 1931. The Hollywood Bloomer Girls were an all-female baseball team playing in the minor leagues against semi-pro men's teams. Lozoya played as a 24 year old although most of the girls on the team were 17 or 18 years old. As a publicity stunt the team went to Universal City and had the Hollywood starlets put on their uniforms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
label: used
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: minor league
label: web subject
content: Women
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ardyth Bernstein and Esther Rafsky Lozoya
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0169.02
label: accession number
content: 1985.0169
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0169.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shirt, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (button material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 35 in; 76.2 cm x 88.9 cm