Baseball, with Jackie Robinson Commemorative Stamp
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: depicted
content: Robinson, Jackie
label: maker
content: Rawlings
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Autographed baseball affixed with a Jackie Robinson commemorative stamp and 1984 postmark from Cooperstown, New York. The ball has been signed by a number of former Major League Ballplayers, including Carl Erskine; George Kell; Erne Banks; Joe Sewell; Pee Wee Reese; Lefty Gomez.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's policy of excluding African American players, starting at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Starring for the Dodgers from 1944 to 1956, Robinson was a World Series champion (1955) and a six-time All-Star (1949-1954). Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, Robinson's number (42) was retired by all major league teams in 1997 in recoginition of his historic breaking of baseball's color barrier.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Haiti
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Autographed Baseballs
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3098.25
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3098
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3098.25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball
label: Object Name
content: autographed baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball, autogrpahed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cork; ink; leather; paper; thread; adhesive (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yarn (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm