US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast a portrait of the deadball

a portrait of the deadball era's most feared baserunner reduced to a thin slip of sugared cardboard

19th Century — a later engraved portrait of the Pennsylvania delegate whose loyalties soured before independence was signed

dark-walled reading rooms

drafted in a year when skin diving was still the province of spearfishermen and Navy frogmen learning to disappear below the surface

US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast a portrait of the deadballUS Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 1950 Roessner's filing diagrams the humble ballplayer's trousers with the seriousness of a tailor's commission, charting reinforced seams and sliding panels for an era when infielders hit the basepaths in heavy flannel and came up grass stained from the hip. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark