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These photographs show the commemorative baseball bat received by Gil Carter as a member of the Wichita Rapid Transit Dreamliners semi-pro baseball team in 1963. That year, the Dreamliner team successfully defended its state and national semi-pro titles by winning tournaments at both levels sponsored by the National Baseball Congress. In the state tournament, the Dreamliners defeated Wichita Service Auto Glassmen by a 6-5 score in the eleventh inning of the final game. In the national tournament, the Dreamliners bested Ponchatoula, Louisiana by a score of 5-4 in the title game. Both tournaments were held in Wichita. Gil Carter was an outfielder for the 1963 Dreamliners. He also was in the starting lineup for the Dreamliners in 1962, when the team won its first state and national semi-pro titles (see Kansas Memory number 310423). Digital images of the commemorative bat were created through a joint project sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society and the Shawnee County Baseball Hall of Fame.
Date: 1963
Item Number: 310424
Call Number: 2015-180
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 310424
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Baseball
Date - 1960s - 1963
Objects and Artifacts - Recreational Artifacts - Sports Equipment - Bat, Baseball
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/310424