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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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Yankees Baseball Cap

6c Professional Baseball single

Stamp with illustration of a baseball player sliding into base and the catcher tagging him "out"

29c Olympic Baseball single

33c Baseball single

33c New Baseball Records single

Anthony Rendon's YMCA Little League baseball card

Softball, signed by the 1940-1941 Boston Red Sox

Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ... : a complete hand book of the national game of base ball ..

Napoleon Lajoie's official base ball guide

Catcher's mitt used by Roy Campanella

Stamp with Joe DiMaggio with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking leftwards towards the ball.

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Joe DiMaggio single

Stamp with Larry Doby with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking leftwards towards the mound

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby single

Stamp with Ted Williams with a baseball bat in hand at the end of his swing, facing the right.

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Ted Williams single

Stamp with Willie Stargell with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking past us towards the mound

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell single

Shoes worn by Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers

Stamp with Larry Doby with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking leftwards towards the mound

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby single

Lajoie's base ball guide

Pennant for the New York Black Yankees

Paterson City Club vs. Baltimore Black Sox

Pennant for the Cincinnati Clowns

Jackie Robinson

Scott and Templeton, L.A., CA 1979

Pennant for the Philadelphia Stars

Pennant for the New York Cuban Stars

Stamp with Willie Stargell with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking past us towards the mound

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell single

Stamp with Joe DiMaggio with a baseball bat in hand pre-swing, looking leftwards towards the ball

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Joe DiMaggio single

Pinback button for the Baltimore Elite Giants

Stamp with Ted Williams with a baseball bat in hand at the end of his swing, facing rightwards

Forever Major League Baseball All-Stars: Ted Williams single

Pinback button for the Kansas City Monarchs

Advertisement on car from Electric railway journal.

Fenway Park [Laura Davidson]

Baseball hat, worn by Rickey Henderson, Oakland A's

Baseball, signed by the 1924 Washington Senators

Baseball, signed by the 1937 New York Yankees

Untitled (historical photograph, baseball team) from the Buffalo, New York Documentary Survey Project


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