- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- American Baseball Cap, American
- Worn by
- Henderson, Rickey Nelson Henley, American, 1958 - 2024
- Signed by
- Henderson, Rickey Nelson Henley, American, 1958 - 2024
- Subject of
- Oakland Athletics, American, founded 1901
- Major League Baseball, American, founded 1869
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- plastic with paint, ink, adhesive, leather, and foam
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9 × 8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.9 × 21 × 29.8 cm)
- Description
- An Oakland Athletics batting helmet worn by Rickey Henderson.
- The hard, plastic helmet is green with a yellow brim. There is a white “A’s” logo sticker in the center front of the helmet. There is a signature in black ink on the brim of the hat. It reads [Rickey Henderson]. The proper left side of the helmet is longer than the proper right side, in order to cover the ear. There is a hole on the ear flap. There are a few small holes and a torn, circular white sticker on the top of the helmet. The inside of the helmet has tan and grey foam padding on the back of the helmet and in the center. There is also tan leather with brown paint covering some of the padding around the front and sides of the helmet. There is a foam circle covering the ear flap. It has a number “24” handwritten on it in black ink. There is a white sticker inside the helmet. It has blue text which reads [american baseball cap / MEDIA, PA. 19063 / 7 ¼ / MADE IN U.S.A.]. There is a small silver, oval sticker on the foam. There is a white number “24” on the back of the helmet at the bottom. There is a colored sticker of the American flag and a colored sticker of the Canadian flag to the proper right of the “24”. There is a white oval sticker with information about the Beckett Authentication company. There are red and yellow marks all over the outside of the helmet. There are scuff marks on the outside and the inside of the helmet, and some of the yellow paint around the brim of the helmet is missing.
- Place depicted
- Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Clothing - Sports Uniforms
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2019.66.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




