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070403-N-7981E-090 (24026792357)

070403-N-7981E-090 (24026792357)

330-CFD-DN-SD-07-24672: U.S. Marine Corps SGT. James"Eddie"Wright grips the honorary game ball for the 5th Annual Seattle Mariners and Boeing Company co-sponsored Salute to the Armed Forces Night, a Major Leagu... More

Icon Motherhood and apple pie, public domain photograph

Icon Motherhood and apple pie, public domain photograph

American cultural icons, apple pie, baseball, and the American flag Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ball's-eye view of a home run / Will Crawford.

Ball's-eye view of a home run / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows a bird's-eye view of a baseball game in progress where a grandslam home run has just been hit and the foreground is dominated by the baseball. Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1895 (1913 June 25)... More

Baseball Digest cover art, 1948

Baseball Digest cover art, 1948

Cover art from the May 1948 issue of Baseball Digest. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Claus' mistake - Print, Library of Congress collection

Santa Claus' mistake - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Union Pacific Tea Co., copyright claimant. Mail?, ... More

Local San Bernardino children are presented with baseballs

Local San Bernardino children are presented with baseballs

Local San Bernardino children are presented with baseballs to be signed by Inland Empire 66ers baseball players at San Manuel Stadium, San Bernardino, Calif., April 18, 2012. Built in 1996, the San Manuel Stadi... More

S73E5137 - STS-073 - Major League baseballs floating in flight deck

S73E5137 - STS-073 - Major League baseballs floating in flight deck

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Baseballs from the American and National Leagues float in the flight deck to commemorate the World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland India... More

A baseball (1904)

A baseball (1904)

In April 1904, McCormack Brothers clothiers of Tacoma, WA were giving away baseball paraphernalia -- including this baseball -- with every purchase of a boy's suit.

Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Using a newly designed apparatus, the U.S. Bureau of Standards today began experiments to determine the relative home-run qualities of American, National and International baseballs. In conducting the tests a scientist pulls the trigger of an air gun loaded with a wooden projectile representing the slugger's bat. The projectile strikes a baseball causing it to fly toward a ballistic pendulum. After each of such hits the scientist takes a reading on the pendulum. It tells him how hard the ball hit the pendulum, or whether it was a homerun, a double, [...]st a pop fly. Dr. H.L. Dryden, Chief [...]e Division of Mechanics and Sound, Designed the machine and is supervising the tests. He is [...] right while on the left is Edward B. Eynon, Secretary of the Washington Baseball Club, 2/21/38

Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness ...

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. testing liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Experiments to test the liveliness of American, National and International League baseballs began at the National Bureau of Standards today. Edward B. Eynon, (left) Secretary of the Washington Baseball Club, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Chief of the Mechanics and Sound Division, who designed the unique machine used in the tests, are discussing the first ball to be hit by the Government Fence Buster, 22138

U.S. testing liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Exper...

A black and white photo of two men in a lab, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More

A point in dispute. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

A point in dispute. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A point in dispute. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

A point in dispute. Advertising - Vintage American Trade Card

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The government's test for velocity of the American and National League baseballs went out in the open air today, having learned all about the traits of the pellets within the laboratory. The Bureau of Standards transported it's paraphernalia to Griffith Stadium to let the baseballs be shot from their air gun and fly where they may. W.C. Mock, of the Bureau of Standards is shown making the test, 3/7/38

Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The govern...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. testing liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Experiments to test the liveliness of American, National and International League baseballs began at the National Bureau of Standards today. Edward B. Eynon, (left) Secretary of the Washington Baseball Club, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Chief of the Mechanics and Sound Division, who designed the unique machine used in the tests, are discussing the first ball to be hit by the Government Fence Buster, 2/21/38

U.S. testing liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Exper...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States Marines - USMC-07016

United States Marines - USMC-07016

A bag of baseballs sits on the back of the pitcher's mound at Camp Fallujah's sandlot baseball field. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 gather there every week to play games, using the same ad-hoc rules th... More

USMC-081212-M-2700C-183

USMC-081212-M-2700C-183

A baseball sits, lodged in the fencing of the batting cage at Combat Outpost Ubaydi, Iraq, Dec. 12. Marines pitch and hit baseballs daily at the batting cage built by the Seabees of Navy Mobile Construction Ba... More

Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness of baseballs. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Using a newly designed apparatus, the U.S. Bureau of Standards today began experiments to determine the relative home-run qualities of American, National and International baseballs. In conducting the tests a scientist pulls the trigger of an air gun loaded with a wooden projectile representing the slugger's bat. The projectile strikes a baseball causing it to fly toward a ballistic pendulum. After each of such hits the scientist takes a reading on the pendulum. It tells him how hard the ball hit the pendulum, or whether it was a homerun, a double, ...st a pop fly. Dr. H.L. Dryden, Chief ...e Division of Mechanics and Sound, Designed the machine and is supervising the tests. He is ... right while on the left is Edward B. Eynon, Secretary of the Washington Baseball Club, 22138

Bureau of Standards designs mechanical batter to determine liveliness ...

Two men working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gener... More

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C., April 29. Walter Johnson's contribution to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York, will be these six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of the ones autographed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the balls are those which were thrown out at opening games pitched by Johnson during his regime as star pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ball autographed by President Hoover was presented to Johnson while he was manager of the Washington team while the one with the signature of Theodore Roosevelt was a special gift to the Big Train

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Basebal...

Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

92-78-A Base Ball USS Asheville PG-21 (5303079899)

92-78-A Base Ball USS Asheville PG-21 (5303079899)

Baseball used in a game between crew members of the USS Asheville PG-21 and a team from the 2nd Fleet. The score of the game is marked on the ball: Asheville 6, 2nd Fleet 7, dated August 20th 1938. The Ashevill... More

Baseball center comparison

Baseball center comparison

Halves of two baseballs, illustrating the composition of the balls. On the left, a traditional cork-centered ball, and on the right, a rubber-centered ball used during World War II. The rubber centers, borrowed... More

Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The government's test for velocity of the American and National League baseballs went out in the open air today, having learned all about the traits of the pellets within the laboratory. The Bureau of Standards transported it's paraphernalia to Griffith Stadium to let the baseballs be shot from their air gun and fly where they may. W.C. Mock, of the Bureau of Standards is shown making the test, 3738

Baseballs undergo outdoor tryout. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. The govern...

A man standing next to a large machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General ... More

92-78-A Base Ball USS Asheville PG-21 (5303079893)

92-78-A Base Ball USS Asheville PG-21 (5303079893)

Baseball used in a game between crew members of the USS Asheville PG-21 and a team from the 2nd Fleet. The score of the game is marked on the ball: Asheville 6, 2nd Fleet 7, dated August 20th 1938. The Ashevill... More

Gfp-soft-baseball

Gfp-soft-baseball

 ; Pictures of other random objects A mini soft baseball

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, William Perlitch or Roger Smith. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War ... More

A bucket full of baseballs sits in the sun inside the

A bucket full of baseballs sits in the sun inside the

A bucket full of baseballs sits in the sun inside the batting cage at Combat Outpost Ubaydi, Iraq, Dec. 12. The Seabees of Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 27 built the batting cage to help boost morale for M... More

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling signs

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling signs

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling signs baseballs for Soldiers during his stop in the Multi-National Division – Baghdad and 4th Infantry Division headquarters, Dec. 6. Schilling also made an office c... More

COL Ray Compton and CSM Snyder throw out the first pitch (35955382501)

COL Ray Compton and CSM Snyder throw out the first pitch (35955382501)

Rising Sun, MD. - RDECOM's Chief of Staff COL Ray Compton and Command Sergeant Major James Snyder threw out the first pitch to get things going at the Little League playoff games in Rising Sun.