Tennis Jacket worn by Renee Richards as a member of the New Orleans Sunbelt Nets
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: user
content: Richards, Renee
notes: label: Description
content: Blue, white and red "Fila" brand jacket, worn by Dr. Renee Richards (b.1934) as a member of the New Orleans Sunbelt Nets during the 1978 World Team Tennis season. Richards played mixed-doubles alongside NBA star John Lucas for the Nets. Prior to joining the WTT tour, Richards had become the first woman to compete in the US Open after having male to female sexual reassignment surgery (1977.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
topic: label: Subject
content: Tennis
label: Subject
content: Transgender
label: web subject
content: Sports
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: 2019.0288.01
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0288.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
label: Object Name
content: jacket, tennis
label: Object Name
content: tennis jacket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (zipper and snaps material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (lettering material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 27 in; 60.96 cm x 68.58 cm