Jimmy Ripple
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: New York Giants
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin with image of New York Giants outfielder Jimmy Ripple. The pin is part of the 1938 <i>Our National Game</i> series. It was originally affixed to a cardboard backing.
label: Description
content: James “Jimmy” Ripple played Major League baseball for the New York Giants (1936-1939), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-1940), Cincinnati Reds (1940-1941) and Philadelphia Athletics (1943). The left-handed hitter compiled a lifetime .282 batting average, 510 hits, 28 home runs and 251 runs batted in. He won a World Series with the Reds in 1940 after being claimed off waivers during the season.
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: 1996.0213.135
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.135
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