Baseball Cleats used by Betsy Jochum of the South Bend Blue Sox
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: wearer
content: Jochum, Betsy
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black leather baseball cleats worn by Betsy Jochum of the South Bend Blue Sox in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Betsy Jochum (b. 1921) was one of the original sixty members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in 1943. Jochum played the entirety of her six year career (1943-1948) with the South Bend (Indiana) Blue Sox.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: level of sport
content: All American Girls Baseball 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: Gift of Betsy Jochum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0183.07
label: accession number
content: 1983.0183
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0183.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoes, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; x 9.525 cm x 26.67 cm