Tag: baseball
Play Ball, Mr. President!
In honor of Opening Day for the 2013 baseball season, we’ve put together this gallery of baseball-related photos, documents, and artifacts from the holdings of the 13 Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. This summary of Presidential baseball history was compiled by James Kratsas, Deputy Director at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 1, 2013, under - Presidents.
Tags: baseball, Boston Red Sox, lincoln, opening day, presidential libraries, Senators, Yankees
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Facial Hair Friday: Opening Day Mustache
Opening Day of the 2013 Baseball Season is this Sunday! What better way to celebrate than to crack open some peanuts, download our free eBook “Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives,” and grow a luxuriant mustache in honor of President Taft. Taft is the newest addition to the Nationals Racing Presidents.The 27th President [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 29, 2013, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: baseball, Nationals, Racing Presidents, Senators, Taft
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The Greatest Athlete of the First Half of the Century
Jim Thorpe was stripped of his Olympic gold medals in 1913, but it was not because of illegal drugs, cheating, or bribery. It was because of baseball. Thorpe was a Native American from Oklahoma. He went to the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school in Stroud, OK, but dropped out. Later he attended the Carlisle [...]
Posted by Hilary on August 9, 2012, under - Great Depression, News and Events.
Tags: athletes, baseball, gold medals, Jim Thorpe, NFL, Olympics, Pop Warner, Sac and Fox
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Take me out to the ballgame (and then to court)
Today’s post is written by Kimberlee Ried, public programs specialist at the National Archives in Kansas City. “Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd . . .” These words, written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908, are still heard every night at baseball parks across America, [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 9, 2012, under News and Events, Unusual documents.
Tags: baseball, Bill Doak, catcher's mitts, Doak, mitts, patents, Rawlings, Rawlings Manufacturing, St. Louis, US Patent Office, Victor Sporting goods
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Four Patriots from Baseball’s Hall of Fame
Each January, as frost and snow cover baseball fields across America, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides heartwarming news for fans of our national pastime. This is the season when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America elects new members from the ranks of retired ballplayers. When the Hall of Fame was first established [...]
Posted by Gregory Marose on January 24, 2012, under - World War I, - World War II, Prologue Magazine.
Tags: 104th Field Artillery Regiment, Babe Ruth, baseball, Beyond the Box Office, Christy Mathewson, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York National Guard, The Bambino, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, war bonds
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