Chico Carrasquel
date: label: Date made
content: 1959
name: label: thru person
content: Rinsland, George
label: maker
content: Topps Company, Inc.
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.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Latinos and Baseball
label: Subject
content: Latino
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: CL.310547.019.168
label: accession number
content: 310547
label: catalog number
content: 310547.019.168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm