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Exhibition Highlights
Enjoy these seven sections of the Baseball As America exhibition.
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 Our National Spirit
Discover how our heritage and national institutions are linked to baseball.
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the game’s most sacred relic, the Doubleday Ball, from baseball’s mythic first game in 1839, |
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opening day autographed balls thrown by U.S. presidents, |
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President Roosevelt’s famous “Green Light” letter stating that “it would be best for the country to keep baseball going” during World War II. |
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 Ideals & Injustices
Explore how baseball is a microcosm for changing attitudes about equality and opportunity as you follow the stories of African-American, Jewish, Polish, Latino, Japanese and female players.
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original 1907 edition of The History of Colored Base Ball, tracing the early roots of organized black baseball, |
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artifacts from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, |
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Jackie Robinson’s Dodgers jersey. |
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Rooting for the Team
Examine the baseball rituals—hot dogs, standing at the seventh-inning stretch and wearing team jerseys and caps to the ballpark—that transform us from passive onlookers to part of a team.
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the original manuscript of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, |
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Harry Caray’s eyeglasses, |
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the San Diego Chicken costume. |
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