Cleats photograph
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Title |
Cleats photograph |
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Subject |
Athletic shoes; Sports gear; sporting goods; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939; Baseball |
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Time Period |
1890s |
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Place |
Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio) |
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Description |
This pair of baseball cleats date from around 1895. The men's cleats are made of brown leather and tie above the ankle. The soles have steel spikes. The right shoe is marked "66 Shipment." The cleats were included in a collection of materials related to writer Zane Grey (1872-1939). His three children (Romer Grey, Loren Grey, and Betty Zane Grosso) donated this collection to the Ohio Historical Society in 1968. Grey (born Pearl Zane Gray) was a member of the 1895 and 1896 varsity baseball teams at the University of Pennsylvania. Grey was a popular novelist of the American West. He was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, to Lewis Gray and Alice Josephine Zane Gray. The family later changed the spelling of its surname, and Zane Grey dropped his first name. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied dentistry. After practicing dentistry for fewer than ten years, Grey decided to become a writer. He drew the inspiration for his first novel, “Betty Zane” (1904), from the stories about frontier Ohio he had heard as a boy. At first he could not find a publisher for the book, but he refused to give up. Grey traveled west and continued his writing. In 1910 he had his first success when “Harper's Magazine” published “The Heritage of the Desert.” Two years later “Harper's” published “Riders of the Purple Sage.” Grey married Lina Elise Roth in 1905. The couple had three children. After publication of “The Heritage of the Desert,” the family moved to Altadena, California. Each year Grey spent time traveling in the west and fishing in the Pacific. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of the young George Washington, and several stories for children. |
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Date of Original |
ca. 1895 |
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Collection |
National Road Zane Grey |
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Source |
H 33637 |
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Format |
Object; Picture; Color photograph |
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Extent |
28 cm x 9 cm x 10 cm |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
H33637.tif |
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Image Height |
2597 |
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Image Width |
3896 |
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File Size |
30369476 Bytes |
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