Baseball diamonds and world's fair wonders.(Innovations)

USA Today (Magazine) | June 1, 2009 | Copyright

There are a myriad of objects on display at "Centuries of Progress: American World's Fairs," ranging from photographs to models to archival materials to ephemera--including the "World of Tomorrow" World's Fair patch worn by the hometown New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees. Interestingly, the trio of Gotham clubs displayed the Trylon-Perisphere-Helicline logo during the 1938 season--even though that world's fair was held in 1939-40--apparently to make way the following year for the baseball centennial patch that all major league teams would wear, ...

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