The Smithsonian's sports history collection, National Museum of American History, Behring Center includes signed baseballs, baseball equipment and memorabilia. Our baseball inspired gift collection depicts the equipment, style and materials of the collections’ artifacts and America’s nostalgia for them.
Harry Katz is the former head curator in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress and a lifelong Red Sox fan. He divides his time between Washington D.C., and Del Mar, California.
Frank Ceresi is a well-known baseball historian and writer living in the D.C. area.
Phil Michel manages the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division archive of more than one million digital images.