Name/Title
World Amateur Softball Championship Trophy, 1939Entry/Object ID
1981.206.2Description
Acc. No. 81.206.2
Subject Category: Sports, Softball
Date or period: 1939
Object: Trophy
Description: It is a large loving cup with lid, with finial of outstretched eagle, resting on three columns. This in turn, is mounted on a wooden base, containing a radio. Flanking the platform on which the radio rests are two metal softballs supporting two figures of a lady softball player with outstretched arms catching ball in a glove. At the base of the trophy is a brass plaque with engraved inscription, "World's Amateur Softball Champions of the Amateur Softball Association, 1939". On the bowl of the cup is engraved "World Champion, Alameda Girl's Soldier's Field, September 12, 1939". There is also a list of twelve girl participants, Brass, gold washed.
Size: 46" high, wooden base is 22"X6" in depth.
History of Object: Trophy presented to the Alameda Girl's Softball team by the Amateur Softball Association in 1939. This was the second consecutive year that this team had won.
Acquired from:
Date:Interpretative Labels
Label
3/12/2020 MvL: Current label doesn't list this accession number, but states:
TROPHY OF THE ALAMEDA WOMEN'S CHAMPION WORLD SOFTBALL TEAM 1938–39, AND UNIFORM WORN BY THE CAPTAIN, JESSIE LESLIE.
DONOR: JESSIE LESLIE
1988 881.2.1 A,B, & C