Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Navy, white and red letterman style jacket with a large red "C" on the left breast. This varsity jacket was worn by Jennifer Engelkirk while on the varisty softball team at Crossroads High School in the late 1980s.
- Jordan Max-Ryan Englekirk was born intersex in 1972 and because he looked like a girl, grew up as Jennifer. Englekirk has personally identified as male for most of his life and growing up struggled with this dichotomy. Often bullied in school and berated by teachers and adults in his life, Englekirk finally made the transition to male in 2012, at 40 years old. He now lives as a man but during high school, while still living as Jennifer, Englekirk became a member of the girls’ softball team and soon was a leader on the diamond. Sports was an important outlet for creating his identity. Englekirk kept sports in his life as an adult and eventually became the first woman to ump at Cooperstown Little Majors Stadium for Little League tournament games.
- Location
- Currently not on view
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- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2018.0169.11
- catalog number
- 2018.0169.11
- accession number
- 2018.0169
- Object Name
- jacket
- jacket, softball
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- wool; polyester; metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall, flat: 82 cm x 86 cm; 32 9/32 in x 33 27/32 in
- overall, mounted: 28 1/2 in x 21 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 72.39 cm x 54.61 cm x 29.21 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1896978
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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