Poster for the East-West Major League Baseball Classic: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A poster for the East-West Major League Baseball Classic held on March 28, 1970. The poster is white and features a yellow and red graphic of a baseball pitcher, mid-pitch. The pitcher is outlined in blue, white, red, green, and yellow bands of varying thicknesses. In a blue field in the top left corner is white text of varying sized fonts that reads, [East-West Classic / Major League Baseball’s / tribute to / the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, President]. Details of the event and ticket prices and information are written in two (2) blue fields in the bottom third of the poster that read, [2:00 P.M. / Dodger Stadium / Saturday, March 28, 1970] and [Ticket Prices - $10.00/$5.00/$3.50/$2.00 / TICKETRON / A SERVICE OF TICKET RESERVATION SYSTEMS, INC.] / Call [white graphic of a row of seats] (213) 878-2211 for more information]. The poster is signed in blue ink in the bottom right corner and reads, [Nancy Lowland]. There is an inscription written in black ink on the back of the poster that reads, [GIFT OF JOSEPH PETERS].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1970
• Designed by: Nancy Lowland
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Subject of: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, American, 1926 - 1990
• Subject of: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
• Subject of: Major League Baseball, American, founded 1869
• Subject of: Dodger Stadium, American, founded 1962
• Subject of: Ticketron, American
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 22 1/8 × 14 in. (56.2 × 35.6 cm)
• Place used: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Baseball
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2017.107.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vincent A. deForest in honor of Joseph Peters, SCLC (Dir, of Sports Project)
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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