United States Patent No 258519 Lacrosse Racquet by Frederic C Jay Filed September 9 1948 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where ivory balls clicked beneath

where ivory balls clicked beneath green shades and a gentleman's cue tip required chalk and powder in equal measure

A piece worth hanging

Nadak reads like a fragment recovered from a turn-of-the-century cigarette pack — a tobacco card whose cryptic surname hints at the immigrant ballplayers who filled the rosters of dead-ball America

Admiral George Dewey USN 1899

the kind of commemorative print that turned a frozen

United States Patent No 258519 Lacrosse Racquet by Frederic C Jay Filed September 9 1948 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where ivory balls clicked beneathUnited States Patent No. 258519 Lacrosse Racquet by Frederic C Jay Filed September 9 1948 Jay's inventor's diagram traces the gut strung pocket and steam bent crook of a stick still closer to its Haudenosaunee origins than to the molded plastic heads to come, an apparatus rendered in that postwar moment when lacrosse remained a craftsman's game of ash, leather, and rawhide. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives