Curator's Choice: Legends of the Dead Ball Era

Name: Curator's Choice: Legends of the Dead Ball Era
Uploaded: 2013-09-19T03:40:11Z
Duration: P188S
Description: At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curator Freyda Spira gives NYC-ARTS a tour of the exhibition “Legends of the Dead Ball Era: Cards from the Jefferson Burdick Collection.” According to the curator, these colorful cards -- from a period of baseball around 1900 and 1919, when “the game was really about strategy and small ball” -- represent “a very significant part of American culture.”

Clip: Season 2013 Episode 380 | 3m 8s

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curator Freyda Spira gives NYC-ARTS a tour of the exhibition “Legends of the Dead Ball Era: Cards from the Jefferson Burdick Collection.” According to the curator, these colorful cards -- from a period of baseball around 1900 and 1919, when “the game was really about strategy and small ball” -- represent “a very significant part of American culture.”

Aired: 09/18/13

Rating: NR

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NYC-ARTS is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS.

Major funding for NYC-ARTS is made possible by The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Elise Jaffe …

Major funding for NYC-ARTS is made possible by The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Charles and Valerie Diker, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, The Nancy Sidewater Foundation, and Ellen and James S. Marcus. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by members of THIRTEEN. NYC-ARTS is made possible by Swann Auction Galleries.

Curator's Choice: Legends of the Dead Ball Era

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