US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Framed_Orioles A mid-century lithograph reaching back

A mid-century lithograph reaching back two centuries for its founding myth

when the office still wore the gravitas of the founders and the swagger of continental ambition

locomotive

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

A portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a sundering nation on their shoulders — the long face

US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Framed_Orioles A mid-century lithograph reaching backUs Patent No. 415884 Base Ball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 reads like a cross section of the dead ball era itself D. M. Shibe's 1889 filing details the wound yarn core and tightly stitched horsehide cover that pitchers spat on and batters punished, drawn in the patient hand of a man whose name would later grace a Philadelphia ballpark. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office