US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the republic looking backward to

the republic looking backward to steady itself

A portrait of the Virginian jurist who steered Tyler's State Department toward the annexation of Texas

printed for fans who folded it into their coat pockets and kept it for the rest of their lives

his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union

where every avenue ends in a monument and every greeting card carries the weight of an address

US Patent No. 415884 Baseball by D M Shibe November 26 1889 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the republic looking backward toUs 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