John (Buddy) Lewis
name: label: referenced
content: Washington Senators
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Lewis, Buddy
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin featuring Washington Senators player Buddy Lewis. The pin is part of 1938's <i>Our American Game </i> series.
label: Description
content: John “Buddy” Lewis played the entirety of his Major League Baseball career with the Washington Senators, playing third base and right field in the Nation’s Capital from 1935-1941, 1945-1947 and 1949. During the Second World War he served in the United States Army Air Forces, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross as a transport pilot. A two-time All-Star, Lewis compiled a lifetime .297 batting average with 1,563 hits, 71 home runs and 607 runs batted in.
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
label: Subject
content: Veterans
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: 1996.0213.232
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.232
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