Name/Title
Baseball score book used by Otto Rittler to record Alameda High School Games, 1938Entry/Object ID
1996.73.18Description
Acc. No. 96.73.18
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda - Otto Rittler Collection
Date or Period: 1937-38
Object: Baseball score book
Description: Black buckram-covered book with tattered spine; on front, stamped in gold lettering: Gold Smith Official Ball Score Book No 5, 60 games; lettering outlined with a plain border. Fly leaf is an advertisement for Gold Smith baseball equipment, showing four different models of catcher's mitts. Handwritten in ink on fly leaf is name Ernie Alexander, Manager, 1937. Pasted on inside of book's front cover is a typed page entitled 1938 Baseball Schedule, and including dates, names of schools, and final scores. Pages of book show date of individual games, names of home team players, names of opposing school team members, and details of play. Final four pages tell how to score a baseball game (two pages) and the last two pages advertise Gold Smith athletic equipment.
Size: 7 1/2" x 12" x 3/8".
History of Object: Baseball score book used by Otto Rittler to record games played by Alameda High School in 1938.
Acquired From:
Mrs. Bernice Rittler Lowell
In memory of her father, Otto Rittler
Date: 3/1/96
