Ernie Lombardi
date: label: date made
content: 1932-1934
name: label: referenced
content: Cincinnati Reds
notes: label: Description
content: Orbit Gum collectible pin back button featuring baseball player Ernie Lombardi.
label: Description
content: Catcher Ernesto “Ernie” Lombardi played Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Robins (1931), Cincinnati Reds (1932-1941), Boston Braves (1942) and New York Giants (1943-1947). An 8-time All-Star, Lombardi was 1938’s National League Most Valuable Player, a year he led the National League in hitting with a .342 average. He won a World Series with the Reds in 1940 and again led the League in batting while competing for the Boston Braves in 1942. The popular backstop compiled a lifetime .306 batting average with 190 home runs, 1,792 hits and 990 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
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: 1996.0213.131
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.131
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