Softball signed by the gold medal winning 2004 Olympic softball team
date: label: Date made
content: 2004
name: label: maker
content: Dudley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Autographed softball is white with red lacing and stored in the original black and green box. This ball is autographed by some of the members of the 2004 Olympic Softball team that won the gold medal at the summer Olympic games in Athens, Greece. Throughout the tournament Team USA outscored its opponents 51-1. It was the third time softball has been played in the Olympics and it was the third straight gold for Team USA.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 2004 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad were held in Athens, Greece with 204 countries, 6,296 men and 4,329 women athletes participating. This was the first time the Games returned to their city of origin since the 1896 Games. American swimmer Michael Phelps earned six gold medals, setting a single-Games record with eight medals while the American women won the gold in the 4x200 relay. American Mariel Zagunis won the gold in the debut sport of Women’s sabre fencing and gymnast Carly Patterson became the second American woman to win gold in the all-around competition. The United States won the medal count with 101 medals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Softball
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: web subject
content: Women
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Athens, 2004
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Athens, 1896
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: 2004.0272.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0272
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0272.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Autographed Softball
label: Object Name
content: softball, summer olympics
label: Object Name
content: softball, autographed
label: Object Name
content: softball, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; x 30.48 cm