United States House of Representatives: History, Art, & Archives
Search the website
Back to Results

Ronald V. Dellums Baseball Card

Ronald V. Dellums Baseball Card/tiles/collection/2/28528.xml
Ronald V. Dellums Baseball Card/tiles/collection/2/28527.xml
Previous Next

Date

1973

Publisher

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Dimensions

3 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (8.3 × 6.4 cm)

Accession Number

2009.110.033

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Official player cards became part of the Congressional Baseball Game tradition around 1973, when this card was made. It was Representative Ron Dellums’s third “season” playing with the Democrats, and Congress’s first road game—they left DC and headed up to Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. The Democrats were in the midst of a losing streak at the time, but their optimistic team manager Representative Frank Clark revealed to the Washington Post that the team’s “stalwart pitchers Henry Gonzalez and Ron Dellums are developing a new pitch called the Watergate blooper.”

Rights and Reproduction Information

Jump To

View Related Objects

Melissa A. Hart Baseball Card
Melissa A. Hart Baseball Card
Ronald V. Dellums
Ronald V. Dellums
Wilmer Mizell Baseball Card
Wilmer Mizell Baseball Card

View Related Oral History

The Trophy Game

Download
View details

Representative Oxley shares his memories of the 2005 Congressional Baseball Game.

The Honorable Michael G. Oxley, U.S. Representative of Ohio
Interview recorded May 22, 2012 – Deed of Gift

View Related Exhibitions & Publications

An Annual Outing: The Congressional Baseball Game
An Annual Outing: The Congressional Baseball Game

View Related People

DELLUMS, Ronald V.
DELLUMS, Ronald V.

View Related Content

From the Blog: “As the Game Goes So Goes the Election” . . . or Not
From the Blog: “As the Game Goes So Goes the Election” . . . or Not
Office of the Historian: history@mail.house.gov
Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk: art@mail.house.gov, archives@mail.house.gov