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Legends take the field in new exhibit on Cincinnati’s baseball history

Queen City Baseball: Diamonds and Stars

The story of baseball is the story of Cincinnati. Home to the first professional baseball team in 1869, Cincinnati changed professional sports in America. Names like Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Barry Larkin are known by baseball fans in every city regardless of age or hometown team. Queen City Baseball: Diamonds and Stars tells the story of Cincinnati baseball over the nearly 150 years since the Red Stockings first took the field en route to a 57-0 season.

Listen to the roar of the crowd as legendary announcer Waite Hoyt provides play-by-play as you tour the exhibit. From the mustaches of the Red Stockings to the dominance of the Big Red Machine, Queen City Baseball tells the history of baseball in the city where the game as we know it today began. View 19th century players’ contracts and payment records and photographs of Cincinnati’s earliest teams. Relive the 1919 World Series and the infamous “Black Sox Scandal” through archival newsreel footage and see baseballs signed by all-time greats like Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. Queen City Baseball also celebrates those who broke racial barriers like Chuck Harmon, the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds, and Louis Dula, whose 1937 contract with the American Negro League’s Homestead Grays will also be on display.

Queen City Baseball: Diamonds and Stars will be on display at Cincinnati Museum Center through September 7. For more information visit www.cincymuseum.org or call (513) 287-7000.

Exhibit honors military contributions and sacrifices of Cincinnati’s men and women over two centuries

Treasures of Our Military Past

Treasures of Our Military Past honors the men, women and organizations who have turned the tides of war and battled injustice around the globe for over 220 years. The exhibit offers a look inside Cincinnati Museum Center’s vast collections to tell the story of these men and women through uniforms, weaponry, equipment, photographs and documents. A hand-drawn plan of Fort Washington from 1793 and a directive from General “Mad” Anthony Wayne tell the story of battles fought in the 18th century in America’s early frontier. The green silk flag of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the “Irish Regiment,” and the uniform and personal effects of General William H. Lytle tell the story of the region’s contributions during the Civil War.

Artifacts recognizing Cincinnati’s contributions to two world wars, including a Croix de Guerre awarded to Maria Clinton Herron during World War I and the World War II army nurse’s uniform of Bobbie Sterne, Cincinnati’s first female mayor, are fascinating glimpses at the region’s men and women who offered their services to the war effort. Uniforms, photos and equipment from post-World War conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan honor generations who still have stories to tell.

You can honor the veterans in your life by adding a name to the Veteran Tribute Wall that will be featured in Treasures of Our Military Past. For a suggested minimum contribution of $10, people are invited to add a name “in honor of” or “in memory of” the veteran in their family.

Treasures of Our Military Past opens at Cincinnati Museum Center May 15. For more information or to add a name to the Veteran Tribute Wall, visit www.cincymuseum.org or call (513) 287-7000.

The largest Allied operation of World War II comes to the OMNIMAX^® theater

D-Day: Normandy 1944

Narrated by Tom Brokaw, D-Day: Normandy 1944 details why and how Normandy, France, became the most important location in the world over the summer of 1944. The film uses sweeping panoramic and aerial footage, animation, CGI and stunning live-action images to blend history, military strategy, science, technology and human values.

D-Day: Normandy 1944 is an immersive experience dedicated to those men and women who fought and sacrificed in one of history’s most incredible operations. Discover just how this pivotal day, and those days before and after it, changed the world.

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