Smithsonian’s ‘Hometown Teams’
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Moderated by Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun’s Margaret Stevens and featuring John Campbell, Mark Dukes, Crystal Eskelsen, Ron Gonder, Jeff Linder, and JR Odgen, this panel will explore Eastern Iowa Sports stories of the last quarter century through moderator and audience questions.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Historian John Liepa will explore the myths regarding the “invention” of baseball, the origins and evolution of the early game in the United States; how the Civil War played a role in accelerating the spread of the game; the very first mention of the game’s coming to Iowa in 1858, and how it caught on. […]
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Legendary Norway High School baseball coach Jim Van Scoyoc will be on site to greet people as they visit the exhibit. Van Scoyoc, who was featured in the movie “The Final Season” later served as a pitching coach for the minor leagues in the Detroit Tigers organization and at Kirkwood Community College.