Mickey Cochrane
date: label: date made
content: 1932-1933
name: label: referenced
content: Philadelphia Athletics
notes: label: Description
content: Collectible pin back button made by Orbit Gum featuring baseball player Mickey Cochrane. The pin is #28 in the series, produced between 1932-1934.
label: Description
content: Catcher Mickey Cochrane played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1925-1933) and Detroit Tigers (1934-1937). A two-time American League Most Valuable Player (1928, 1934), Cochrane achieved an incredible lifetime .320 batting average, as well as 1,652 hits, , 830 runs batted in, 1,041 runs and 119 homers. A two-time All-Star, Cochrane led three teams to World Series titles, including one as the Tigers player-manager. He would go on to serve in the United States Navy during the Second World War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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: 1996.0213.120
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.120
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in; x 2.54 cm