Numero oggetto
M.57.5a
Titolo
Hurling Ball or Sliotar
Data
1957
Creatore
Materiale
Portata
circumference: 21.5 cm
Descrizione
Hurling ball, complete, one of two; (Ball Display). Leather hide, cream colour, cut in the same way as a tennis ball but with an outer lug (protruding seam), sealed with brown wax. Large core of compressed cork wound with a thin layer of woollen yarn. Stamped on two places: Made by O'Neill's.
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Most of the 250 balls in the MCC collection record the great batting and bowling feats in cricket history, but we also have balls from other sports for comparison.
M.57.27 Softball Ball. 1957. Donated by Stuart Surridge & Co Ltd
M.57.1a Spalding Baseball, signed by Brooklyn Dodger, Sal Maglie, 1957.
M.57.5a Hurling Sliotar, O'Neill's, 1957. Donated by J C Boucher
M.57.35.1 & 2 Eton Fives Ball Stuart Surridge & Co Ltd
This shows the interior construction and how it differs from a cricket ball.
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP68 : Curator's correspondence relating to gifts to the MCC 1945-1960 donor surname B
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