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BASEBALL BAT
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Reach OAL Baseball War Department Baseball Box |
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| War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities |
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1917
Reach OAL War Department
Commission on Training Camp Activities Baseball |
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1917 Official American
League War Department
Baseball |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA
- 1917-1918
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MANUFACTURER
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Reach
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SIZE
- 9
inches - 5 ounces
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PRICE GUIDE
- $1,250. - $2,500.
Excellent-Near Mint
Condition
Add $150.-$200. with
box.
Information
Provided by:
Keymancollectibles.com
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Days
after the U.S. entered the first World
War in April of 1917, President Woodrow
Wilson created a new Federal Agency,
the Commission on Training Camp
Activities. The program was designed to
clean up the immoral influences
associated with encampments and their
surrounding communities. It was a great
concern to the American Family, for the
moral destruction of their sons, and
husbands going off to war. The program
would help surround our troops with a
healthy, cheerful environment, and to
ensure the purity of the camp
environment. Training camps would then mold not only soldiers, but
model citizens who after the war
would return to their communities
spreading urban middle-class values
throughout the country.
Almost immediately organizations such as the Knights of Columbus the YMCA,
the YWCA, the Jewish Welfare Board, the
Salvation Army, and the American
Library Association worked to supply
recreational services and raise money
for equipment. The WWI "bat and ball
fund" was started. Shortly after the
CTCA - Commission on Training Camp
Activities was in place, Washington
Senators owner Clark Griffith launched
a plan to support our troops by raising
money to purchase athletic equipment.
mostly baseball gear, to outfit every
U.S. military training camp.
The Y.M.C.A. shipped 144,000 bats and 79,680 balls to the troops overseas
with the money raised by Griffith.
Baseball equipment including the 1918
Official National League Baseballs used
by American serviceman stationed in
Poitiers, France, featured the
Y.M.C.A. stamp. The equipment that was
supplied through the CTCA had the "War
Department Commission on Training Camp
Activities" stamp. It was reported in a
July 1918 newspaper that "more than
70,000 baseballs and 3,000 bats have
been sent to the American camps. Large
quantities of gloves, masks and chest
protectors have been given to the
sport-loving soldiers."
Because of the lack of auction information and sales history, the value
estimated above is based on the sales
of 1913-1917 Reach Official American
League baseballs. Baseballs featuring
the War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities stamp are far
more rare than balls featuring the
Y.M.C.A France stamp.
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MORE PHOTOS |
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| War
Department Training Camp
Activities Reach OAL
Baseball |
1917 Reach Official
American League War
Department Baseball |
WWI Reach Commission on
Training Camp Activities
baseball |
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