February 22, 1880- upstate New York. The US men’s hockey team beat the Soviet team in the most famous hockey game in American history.
Twenty-one years later, America was still reeling from the 9/11 attack when President George W. Bush came to New York and threw out the first pitch of the resumed World Series in Yankee Stadium.
This National Archives Museum exhibition begins and ends with the uniting force in American life through the triumph and tragedy of sports.
Between the two famous moments, these powerful sports moments are documented in this exhibition:
- Babe Ruth’s draft registration card
- Early baseball cards
- Joe Louis WWI recruitment poster
- Jim Thorpe’s Olympic gold medals
- Football trophy won by the Buffalo soldiers of West Point’s Calvary detachment
- Towel thrown into the ring to end Joe Lewis vs Max Schmeling fight in Nazi Germany
- Baseball game in Japanese American internment camps of WWII
- Desegregation moments in the NFL and Major League Baseball
- Yogi Berra’s life advice
- Winged football helmet
This exhibition is organized in four sections:
- The Power to Unite
- The Power to Teach
- The Power to Break Barriers
- The Power to Promote
Go beyond the Great Hall and our nation’s founding documents.
Visit “All American” with your family. Share your memories together. Relive great moments in American sports.
Put in on your list of what to see in Washington DC.
Free admission. Open 7 days a week 10-5:30 at the National Archives.
