Official League Ball adopted by the National League
date: label: date made
content: ca 1883
name: label: maker
content: Spalding
notes: label: Description
content: Spalding brand baseball, marked "Official League Ball - Adopted by the National League." It was patented Feb 27, 1883 (U.S. Patent 272984). The National League formed in 1876 and the American League, formed in 1901, compromise modern Major League Baseball.
label: Description
content: Benjamin F. Shibe (1838-1922), of Philadelphia, received the patent for his improvement in the manufacture of baseballs. Shibe was an American sporting goods and baseball executive and part owner of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1922.
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Patent Models
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
label: See more items in
content: Autographed Baseballs
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1152.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1152.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.1152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: off-white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (stitching color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm