Hank Greenberg
name: label: depicted
content: Greenberg, Hank
label: associated institution
content: Detroit Tigers
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin featuring Detroit Tiger Hank Greenberg. The pin is part of the 1938 <i>Our National Game</i> series. It was originally was affixed to a cardboard backing.
label: Description
content: Hank Greenberg (b. 1911-1986) played Major League baseball from 1930-1947, missing the 1942-1944 seasons due to military service. The catcher played the Detroit Tigers for the entirety of his career, except for his final season, spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
label: Description
content: A five time All-Star, Greenberg won two American League MVP awards (1935,1940) and helped lead the Tigers to two World Series Championships (1935, 1945.) <i>The Hebrew Hammer,</i> Greenberg, baseball's first Jewish American superstar, had a .313 lifetime batting average, with 331 home runs and 1,276 runs batted in.
label: Description
content: In 1956 he 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
label: Subject
content: Judaism
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: 1982.0566.26
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0566.26
label: accession number
content: 1982.0566
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: pin
label: Object Name
content: pin, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7/8 in; x 2.2225 cm