US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast his shoulder straps speaking the

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

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

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

General Lewis Cass 1846

US Patent No. 23225 Garment Construction (baseball Uniform Pants) by W L Roessner May 2 195 washington coast his shoulder straps speaking theUS 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