Baseball Cap worn by St. Louis Cardinal Enos Slaughter
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: associated institution
content: Saint Louis Cardinals
notes: label: Description
content: St. Louis Cardinals baseball hat attributed to Enos Slaughter. Outfielder Enos Slaughter played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-1942, 1946-1953), New York Yankees (1954-1955, 1956-1959), Kansas City Athletics (1955-1956) and Milwaukee Braves. He served in the United States military during the Second World War.
label: Description
content: A ten-time All-Star, Slaughter, a left-handed batter, had a lifetime .300 batting average, with 2,383 hits, 169 home runs and 1, 304 runs batted in. The North Carolina native played on four World Series Championship teams and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Milburn J. Ponder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0270.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0270
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0270.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 10 in x 8 in; 12.7 cm x 25.4 cm x 20.32 cm