- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Worn by
- Campanella, Roy, American, 1921 - 1993
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Medium
- leather, padding, metal
- Dimensions
- 9 3/4 × 12 × 3 5/16 in. (24.8 × 30.5 × 8.5 cm)
- Description
- A dark brown leather catcher's mitt used by Roy Campanella. The catcher's mitt lacks individual fingers and is to be worn on the left hand. The back has an adjustable strap across the top with leather strip ties strung through metal grommets around the perimeter of the glove. An opening is under the adjustable trap. The glove is heavily padded.
- Place used
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Type
- gloves
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.30.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




