Deacon Phillipe
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1911
name: label: depicted
content: Pittsburgh Pirates
label: maker
content: American Tobacco Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sweet Caporal Cigarettes pin back button featuring baseball player Deacon Phillipe.
label: Description
content: After a rookie season spent with the Kentucky Colonels (1899,) right-handed pitcher Charles “Deacon” Phillipe joined the Pittsburgh Pirates. where he would star from 1900-1911. The native Virginian started and won the first World Series game ever (1903) a complete game victory over the Boston Americans. Although the Pirates would not take home the championship that year, Phillipe and the team would attain a World Series crown in 1906, defeating the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 3. In the National League Phillipe had a lifetime 189-109 win-loss record, with 929 strike outs and a 2.59 earned run average, helping lead Pittsburgh to four National League pennants.
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: 1996.0213.109
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.109
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in; x 2.54 cm