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Congressional Baseball Game Scorecard

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Date

1949-06-03

Dimensions

11 × 7 in. (27.9 × 17.8 cm)

Accession Number

2009.146.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

The official score card for the 1949 Congressional Baseball Game gave fans space to follow along with each play, as well as an opportunity to learn about Camp Good Will, the beneficiary of the game’s proceeds. The sponsor—the Evening Star newspaper—included a moving description of the summer camp, which provided city-dwelling children with “safe tree shaded pools” to swim in, rather than “the muddy waters of the Potomac,” a “real athletic field far from the shrieking and irate horns of their neighborhood alleys,” and most importantly, “all they want to eat.”

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