Jack Barry
date: label: date made
content: 1949
name: label: Associated Name
content: Philadelphia Athletics
label: Associated Name
content: Boston Red Sox
label: Associated Name
content: College of the Holy Cross
notes: label: Description
content: Infielder Jack Barry played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1908-1915) and the Boston Red Sox (1915-1919.) Along with John “Snuffy” McInnis, Eddie Collins and John F. “Home Run” Baker, the shortstop was part of Philadelphia’s famed “100,000 infield” which helped bring the A’s three World Series titles (1910, 1911,1913.) Barry also won back to back championships while a member of the Boston Red Sox (1915, 1916.)
label: Description
content: Leading Boston as the team’s player-manager in 1917, Barry missed the entirety of the following season after being called to active duty in the Navy during the first World War.
label: Description
content: In 1921, two years after his retirement from the Major Leagues, Barry embarked on a forty-year career as baseball coach for Holy Cross University.
label: Description
content: The object is one of a set of 12 cards autographed by professional baseball players, primarily members of the Philadelphia Athletics.
topic: 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
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.035.09
label: accession number
content: CL*310547
label: catalog number
content: CL*310547.035.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autograph, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5 in; 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm