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Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections

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Among the national treasures you'll find:

  • The only known photographic image of baseball's first organized team, the New York Knickerbockers, circa 1846.

  • Original copy of the first written rules of modern baseball.

  • One of the earliest known color advertising posters promoting the very first set of baseball cards, released in 1887.

  • Scorecard from the inaugural World Series in 1903.

  • Shoeless Joe Jackson's rookie-era game-used bat.

  • Game-worn jerseys of Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Grove, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams.

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