国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「Metal needles and thread helped Ernie Martinez preserve his favorite glove as he grew up playing baseball in the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually stitched this glove back together three times. Martinez grew up outside of Los Angeles, California, in a working-class, baseball-loving family of four boys, three girls, and their mother and father. His father, Leopoldo “Leo” Martinez, was an amateur baseball player in Texas, Mexico, and Southern California for about 30 years. In the 1940s, prior to becoming a U.S. citizen, Leo played shortstop for the Mexican National Baseball Team. In an interview with Margaret Salazar-Porzio, curator of Latina/o History and Culture, Ernie's brother Howard noted that "[t]here wasn’t a lot of money in the house with seven kids, so you had to take care of the stuff you had.” Martinez's glove and homemade repair kit are just two of the many objects that will be featured in our 2021 exhibition, "¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas." The exhibition will take visitors on a journey into the heart and history of U.S. Latino baseball, exploring the historic role that baseball has played as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the nation for over a century—and how Latinos in particular have influenced and changed the game. "¡Pleibol!" will open in our museum in 2021, and it will tour the country as a traveling exhibition, opening at @thecastlemuseum, from January 23 to April 18, 2021, as part of the @sitesexhibitions. Can't wait for 2021? The exhibition's companion book, "¡Pleibol! En los barrios y las grandes ligas," by curator Margaret Salazar-Porzio and Professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. is available now (link in bio): https://s.si.edu/2FIQOyq #AmericanHistory #SportsHistory #BaseballHistory #HispanicHeritage #HispanicHeritageMonth #HHM #HHM2020 #LatinoHistory #LatinxHistory ¡Pleibol! has received generous support from the Cordoba Corporation and the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the @slc_latino.」9月17日 2時24分