Roger Maris
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s
name: label: referenced
content: New York Yankees
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Maris, Roger
notes: label: Description
content: Stadium souvenir pinback button depicting New York Yankee Roger Maris. The button is part of a series designated PM10, and were available between 1947-1966.
label: Description
content: Outfielder Roger Maris played Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians (1957-1958), Kansas City Athletics (1958-1959), New York Yankees (1960-1966) and St. Louis Cardinals (1967-1968). A two-time American League Most Valuable Player (1960, 1961), seven-time All-Star, and three-time World Series Champion (1961, 1962, 1967), Maris is best known for breaking of Babe Ruth’s single season home run record, swatting 61 in 1961.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0213.328
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.328
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; x 7.62 cm