Baseball Card of Martín Dihigo: Museum Object and Cultural History
Baseball Card of Martín Dihigo: Date: ca. 1945. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Martín Dihigo, Cuban, 1906 - 1971.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black and white baseball card of Martín Dihigo of the baseball team Caramelo. The front of the card features Dihigo wearing a baseball jersey top and cap. In the lower left corner is a small circle with a number centered within [65]. On the reverse is black text in Spanish: [65-Martín Dihigo. Pit-/cher e Infielder. Jugò el pa-/sado año con el club Ha-/bana./OBSEQUIO DEL/Caramelo/DEPORTIVO/Fabricado y Distribuído/Por/FELICES/A. Seco, 270. Telf U-2233]. The card is enclosed in a plastic bag within a hard plastic rectangular shell.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1945
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Martín Dihigo, Cuban, 1906 - 1971
- Type: portraits
- Type: baseball cards
- Medium: paper, ink
- Dimensions: H x W: 2 5/8 × 1 15/16 in. (6.7 × 4.9 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Athletes
- Topic: Baseball
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2013.183.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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