Bill Zuber's Restaurant Spoon

This silver plated Souvenir Spoon is from Bill Zuber's Restaurant in Amana Colonies, Homestead Iowa. The spiral rope stem design leads to the handle tip of the spoon which features a baseball bat crossing a baseball with the raised notation "Bill Zuber's Restaurant, Amana Colonies, Homestead Iowa." The back of the stem has a Corwill-Holland makers mark.

Bill Zuber played 19 years of professional baseball. At the Major League level. Zuber pitched for the Cleveland Indians in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, the Washington Senators 1941-1942, the 1943 World Champion New York Yankees to 1946, and the Boston Red Sox 1946-1947. Bill returned to the minor leagues for the 1948 season, pitching for the Louisville Colonels, before retiring.

In 1949, Bill a native of the Amana Colonies, purchased the century old Homestead Inn, where he completely modernized it into a restaurant. Because of his activities pitching in the American League, the name of "The Dugout" was appropriately selected for the newly established restaurant, serving family style German-American food. The restaurant operated from 1950 to 2003, when it closed due to a slow tourism period.

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