Chico Carrasquel
date: label: date made
content: 1952
name: label: referenced
content: Chicago White Sox
label: maker
content: Topps Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Alfonso Carrasquel Colón, known professionally as Chico Carrasquel, was born in Venezuela, and played shortstop in Major Leage Baseball in the United States for the Chicago White Sox (1950–1955), Cleveland Indians (1956–1958), Kansas City Athletics (1958) and Baltimore Orioles (1959). The stellar feilder was the first player from Latin-America to start an All-Star Game, participating in four of the mid-season contests.
label: Description
content: Carrasquel had a lifetime .258 batting average, 55 home runs and 474 runs batted in.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: Subject
content: Latinos and Baseball
label: Subject
content: Latino
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3098.37
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3098
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3098.37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm