One of the unexpected pleasures of the Cardinals' Hall of Fame was the very, very large display of items, baseball goodies, and other cool and priceless items that documented the Cardinals and by extension MLBs Asian connection-in particular the four tours of Japan that MLB and/or the Cardinals went on. A little research for this post "discovered" that we were lucky to see the special collection as it is only going through the 2018 season. There is a really good over view of the exhibit here at
Cardinals Museum to debut special exhibit examining goodwill tours to Japan. Included was Moe Berg's jacket-Moe freaking Berg! If you aren't familiar with him please check this out
Moe Berg SABR. Also some great Japanese players were involved especially the legendary mr. Oh.
The MLB link tells us that there was a World Tour of Baseball Tour of Japan 1913-14 and below is John McGraw's actual uniform. A 1934 All-American Tour with Moe Berg, and a Cardinals only tour in 1958 and 1968. Fuji I hate to say it but if I find these items I may have to keep them.
1958
Stan's Jacket
1968
Lots of cool stuff on display. Who would have thought that you'd find a kimono at a baseball museum?
ReplyDeleteindeed-it was great to see you on saturday-I hope you scored some great items
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