Jack Pfiester
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1911
name: label: depicted
content: Chicago Cubs
label: maker
content: American Tobacco Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sweet Caporal Cigarettes premium pin back button featuring baseball player Jack Pfiester.
label: Description
content: Pitcher Jack Pfiester played Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1903-1904) and Chicago Cubs (1906-1911). With the Cubs, the left-hander won four National League pennants and two World Series (1907, 1908). Achieving one of the lowest earned run averages of all time (2.02), the pitcher accumulated a lifetime 71-44 record with 503 strike outs. Pfiester was called “Jack the Giant Killer” in the popular press due to his success when facing the rival New York Giants.
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: 1996.0213.110
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.110
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