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Baseball Bat

Collection Type

  • Sporting equipment

Date

1868-1933

GUSN

GUSN-12690

Description

Turned cylindrical bat tapers toward circular "mushroom" handle from bulbous head. Decorated with a wide center green stripe.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bats (game equipment)
hardwood
turning (shaping process)
stripes
Hardwood
Turned
Stripe
BAT, BASEBALL

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.1797

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