Associated Name:

St. Louis Browns  Search this

Philadelphia Athletics  Search this

Maker:

Woodward and Tierman Printing Co.  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

brown (overall color)

white (overall color)

ink (overall material)

Measurements:

average spatial: 6 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 17.145 cm x 12.954 cm

Object Name:

Scorebook

scorecard

score card

score book

program

Place made:

United States: Missouri, Saint Louis

Date made:

1902

Description:

The St. Louis Browns baseball team began as the Milwaukee Brewers, which moved to Missouri in 1902. This score card comes from the American's Leagues teams second year in St. Louis, where they were managed by Jimmy McAleer, who was prominently featured on the front of that year's programs.

The scorebooks comes from a game against the Philadelphia Athletics. The center pages feature a scorecard filled out in pencil.

The Browns left St. Louis after the 1953 season to become the Baltimore Orioles. The A's left Philadelphia, first moving to Kansas City in 1954, and finally to Oakland in 1968.

Location:

Currently not on view

Subject:

Baseball  Search this

Credit Line:

N. B. Smith

ID Number:

1979.0379.01

Catalog number:

1979.0379.01

Accession number:

1979.0379

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-fa65-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1064444