United States House of Representatives: History, Art, & Archives
Search the website
Back to Results

“Baseball”—Congressional Style

“Baseball”—Congressional Style/tiles/collection/2/28678.xml
“Baseball”—Congressional Style/tiles/collection/2/28679.xml
Previous Next

Date

1963-07-30

Maker

U.P.I. Telephoto

Dimensions

8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Accession Number

PA2011.07.0002b

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Republican team captain Silvio Conte makes it safely to first base, while Neil Gallagher loses his glove fielding a ball. Despite this error, the Democrats won the game. The day before the matchup, the Washington Post reported that the prevailing team had high confidence in reversing their fate from the previous year, due to some new players. On their side were “Teddy Kennedy, an expert on touch football but also not a bad baseball player, and young Birch Bayh, the Indiana whiz-kid.” The win though, was an anomaly. Conte’s Republican team started a decade-long winning streak the following year.

Rights and Reproduction Information

Jump To

View Related Objects

Congressional Baseball Game Program
Congressional Baseball Game Program
Safe At First
Safe At First
The Republican Baseball Team
The Republican Baseball Team

View Related Oral History

Congressional Baseball Game

Download
View details

Representative Oxley describes the camaraderie between congressional baseball players.

The Honorable Michael G. Oxley, U.S. Representative of Ohio
Interview Recorded May 22, 2012. – Deed of Gift

View Related Exhibitions & Publications

An Annual Outing: The Congressional Baseball Game
An Annual Outing: The Congressional Baseball Game

View Related People

CONTE, Silvio Ottavio
CONTE, Silvio Ottavio
GALLAGHER, Cornelius Edward
GALLAGHER, Cornelius Edward

View Related Content

“As the Game Goes So Goes the Election” . . . or Not
“As the Game Goes So Goes the Election” . . . or Not
Office of the Historian: history@mail.house.gov
Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk: art@mail.house.gov, archives@mail.house.gov