Exhibition Explores Latina/o Impact Through Baseball Artifacts, Stories and Photos
June 29, 2021
Roberto Clemente, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, around 1967. Courtesy of the Clemente Museum.
This summer, the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd will echo throughout neighborhood fields and Major League Stadiums. On July 2, “¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas,” a bilingual exhibition, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
A high school letterman jacket, a handmade ball from Cuba and recreation-league jerseys are exhibited alongside Roberto Clemente’s Pittsburgh Pirates batting helmet, Anthony Rendon’s childhood jersey and an autographed ball from the gold-winning 2004 U.S. Olympics women’s softball team to highlight the breadth of experience and talent Latinas/os have brought to America’s pastime.
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