Rube Oldring Autograph
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
name: label: Associated Name
content: Philadelphia Athletics
label: Associated Name
content: New York Yankees
notes: label: Description
content: Rueben “Rube” Oldring (1884-1961) was an outfielder and utility infielder in Major League baseball for 13 years, beginning with the New York Highlanders in 1905. The next year he would join the Philadelphia Athletics, where he would spend most of his career, contributing to three championship clubs (1910, 1911, 1913,) (although injuries prevented Oldring from participating in the 1910 World Series.)
label: Description
content: Oldring stayed with the Athletics until 1916, where he spent part of a season with the New York Yankees. After a year away from the game, he played one more season with the Athletics before retiring from the Majors
label: Description
content: The object is one of a set of 12 cards autographed by professional baseball players, primarily members of the Philadelphia Athletics.
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.035.10
label: accession number
content: CL*310547
label: catalog number
content: CL*310547.035.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autograph, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5 in; 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm