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Miniature Baseball Bat - Millington, Tennessee

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Overview

A miniature, wooden baseball bat stamped with a logo of the National Training Centre USA Stadium. The logo consists of an outline of the State of Tennessee decorated with 'Stars & Stripes'. Over the stars and stripes is an image of a baseball with the words 'USA Stadium' imprinted across it. A border encircles the baseball with the words 'National Training Centre' and 'Millington Tennessee'. Stamped into the wood to the right of the logo are the words "National Training Site for USA Baseball" Millington, Tennessee.

Historical information

The USA Stadium is a baseball stadium in the United States of America, located at 4351 Babe Howard Boulevard in Millington, Tennessee. Between 1986 and 1996, it was the national training site for the USA Olympic Baseball team.

Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Stadium]

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Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.448

Item type

Sports Memorabilia

Material

Width

3.5000 cm

Height or length

45 cm

Themes

Inscriptions and markings

'USA Stadium'
'National Training Centre'
'Millington, Tennessee'
'"National Training Site for USA Baseball"'
'Millington, Tennessee'

Contextual Information

This souvenir bat was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Paul Tye.

Keywords

National Training Site for USA Baseball

USA Baseball Training Site

Millington, Tennessee, USA

Sports Memorabilia

Baseball Stadium

Baseball WA

Baseball WA

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Miniature baseball bat from the National Training Centre USA Stadium - Millington, Tennessee

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