Baseball, with Jackie Robinson Commemorative Stamp
Object Details
- date made
- 1984
- depicted
- Robinson, Jackie
- Associated Name
- Banks, Ernie
- Reese, Pee Wee
- maker
- Rawlings
- Description (Brief)
- Autographed baseball on which a Jackie Robinson commemorative stamp and 1984 postmark from Cooperstown, New York has been affixed. The ball has been signed by a number of former Major League Ballplayers, including Carl Erskine; George Kell; Ernie Banks; Joe Sewell; Pee Wee Reese; Lefty Gomez.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- place made
- Haiti
- name of sport
- Baseball
- web subject
- Sports
- level of sport
- Professional
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Autographed Baseballs
- Credit Line
- Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2009.3098.25
- nonaccession number
- 2009.3098
- catalog number
- 2009.3098.25
- Object Name
- baseball
- autographed baseball
- baseball, autogrpahed
- baseball, autographed
- Physical Description
- cork; ink; leather; paper; thread; adhesive (overall material)
- cork (overall material)
- yarn (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1391184