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Preserving Baseball History: Art, Artifacts, and Memorabilia

America's “greatest pastime” as captured in the collections. For more see Baseball: America's Homerun from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: En los barrios y las grandes ligas from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.


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Georges Carpentier and Babe Ruth

Bill Tilden and George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Nolan Ryan

Texas Rangers Button

1946 Negro League Baseball Yearbook

Baseball, Georgetown vs. Penn State

Pair of blue stamps with engraving of Babe Ruth with bat straight in the air after hitting the ball

20c Babe Ruth foldover with missing ink pair

Baseball, used by Sam Streeter

Baseball Springs Eternal

Hank Aaron

Texas Rangers baseball cap

Hank Aaron

Sammy Sosa

Hank Aaron, Delbert Rice, Andrew Pafko, Fred Haney and Joseph Adcock

Baseball, signed by Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron

Jackie Robinson

Baltimore Orioles Autographed Baseball

Derek Jeter

33c Jackie Robinson single

Official Babe Ruth League Baseball

Glove used by Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Orioles

Pinback button of Jackie Robinson with baseball charm and ribbon

1919 Baseball Scandal

Baseball at Night

Baseball, signed by Jackie Robinson, Bob Feller and Others

Photograph of Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella with Brooklyn Dodger teammates

Baseball Glove worn by Ken Griffey Jr.

Ernie Banks, Larry Doby, Matty Brescia, Jackie Robinson, Martin's Stadium, Memphis, TN

Milwaukee Brewers Jersey, worn by Hank Aaron

Brooklyn Dodgers 1955

Baseball, signed by the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers

44c Negro Leagues Baseball: Play at the Plate single

Homestead Grays

44c Negro Leagues Baseball: Andrew "Rube" Foster single

Baseball, awarded to Walter "Buck" Leonard


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