100th Anniversary Baseball Patch
date: label: date made
content: 1969
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Patch commemorating the 100th anniversary of professional baseball, honoring the first professional touring baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The anniversary was celebrated in 1969, with team's league wide wearing this sleeve patch.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The patch's design was created to commemorate the anniversary and is still in use today as Major League Baseball's official logo.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lou Newman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0265.132
label: accession number
content: 1999.0265
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0265.132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patch, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 2 9/16 in x 3 3/4 in