Baseball Cleats worn by Esther Lozoya of the Hollywood Bloomer Girls
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: user
content: Lozoya, Esther Rafsky
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black leather baseball cleats worn by Esther Lozoya of the Hollywood Bloomer Girls in 1931. The Hollywood Bloomer Girls were an all-female baseball team playing in the minor leagues against semi-pro men's teams. Lozoya played as a 24 year old although most of the girls on the team were 17 or 18 years old. As a publicity stunt the team went to Universal City and had the Hollywood starlets put on their uniforms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: minor league
label: web subject
content: Women
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ardyth Bernstein and Esther Rafsky Lozoya
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0169.05
label: accession number
content: 1985.0169
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0169.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cleats, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 9 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 24.765 cm x 8.89 cm