Ted Lyons
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: Associated Name
content: Chicago White Sox
label: Associated Name
content: Cracker Jack
notes: label: Description
content: 1930 Cracker Jack premium pinback button featuring baseball player Ted Lyons.
label: Description
content: Right-handed pitcher Ted Lyons played Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox from 1923-1941 and in 1946, with the years 1942 to 1945 spent serving in United States Marine Corps during the Second World War. In his final year pitching for the Sox, Lyons acted as both player and Manager, continuing to skipper the club for two seasons after retiring from the mound. Lyons finished his career with 260 wins, the most in White sox history, against 230 losses, along with 25 saves, a .367 earned run average and 1,073 strikeouts, leading the American League in wins twice and making one All-Star team. As a manager Lyons was less successful, achieving a record of 185–245. He would later Coach for the Tigers and Dodgers and in1955, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: Web Subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.314637.00545
label: accession number
content: 314637
label: catalog number
content: 314637.00545
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3/4 in; x 1.905 cm