Zack Wheat
name: label: Associated Name
content: Brooklyn Dodgers
label: Associated Name
content: Philadelphia Athletics
label: Associated Name
content: Cherokee
notes: label: Description
content: Zacharia "Zack" Wheat (1888-1972) played outfield for the Brooklyn Superbas/ Robins (the team that would later officially change their name to the Dodgers) from 1909-1926. In 1927 he would finish his career playing for the Philadelphia Athletics.
label: Description
content: Wheat remains the Dodgers’ all-time franchise leader in hits, runs batted in, and total bases, as well as in doubles and triples. His career numbers include a batting average of .317, with 2,884 hits, 132 home runs, and 1,248 runs batted in. Brooklyn would take home two National League pennants during Wheat’s tenure (1916,1920.)
label: Description
content: Descended from puritan Moses Wheat on his father’s side, and of Cherokee ancestry from his Mother’s, Wheat’s two brothers also played professional baseball, with Mack also making the Major Leagues, playing alongside Zach for five years in Brooklyn.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: level of sport
content: Major League
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Native Americans
label: Subject
content: American Indians
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.034.06
label: catalog number
content: 310547.034.06
label: accession number
content: 310547
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Baseball
label: Object Name
content: autograph
label: Object Name
content: autograph, baseball
label: Other Terms
content: Card, Baseball; Autograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm