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Say Hey Willie Mays Baseball Game

1954

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A Say Hey! Willie Mays Baseball Game consisting of a box (.1abc), game board (.2), photo (.3), game rules (.4), and three (3) score cards (.5.1-3). .1abc: This cardboard box lid (a), box bottom (b), and inner cardboard support (c) are for the board game Say Hey! Willie Mays' Baseball Game. The lid of the box (a) has a polka-dot pattern with small white squares on a green background. On the left side of the lid is a square outlined with a white border with a solid green background. The square is slightly at a diagonal and contains text of varying font in black and white reading "Say / Hey! / IT'S WILLIE MAYS' OWN / BASEBALL / GAME". Within the square in the upper left corner is a white and blue tinted portrait of Willie Mays. Mays is seen looking to the right and wears a New York Giants baseball hat.

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Catalog reference: 2013.211.4.1-5

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