2.5" dia. Holed at top. During the 1950s Alabama was a Democratic stronghold w/Democratic Presidential candidates taking the states portion of electoral votes dating back to Grant, as long as you count the 1948 Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond as the Democrat on a ballot that did not feature Harry S Truman. The impressive track record aside in 1953 the trio of Perry O. Hooper, Van A. Pierce & Dan N. Thompson were fielded as the first ever Republican candidates for Birmingham City Commission. The baseball motif while likely stems from the slogan could also be in reference to two baseball related events that year- the Aug. 1953 Little League World Series wsaw Birmingham beat Schenectady, NY 1-0 in the 7th edition of the event and on Oct. 8 Jackie Robinson played a barnstorming game that featured an integrated team (including Gil Hodges) that saw notoriouse racist Sheriff Bull Connor attempt to shut down the event enforcing a city ordinence aginst integrated atheltic events in the city, this some 6 years after Robinson integrated Major league baseball. Even age toning w/light wear otherwise w/a few scattered age spots. VF. An interesting intersection of politics, sports, and civil rights history.