Pinback Button, Official American Association
date: label: date made
content: 1882-1891
name: label: Associated Name
content: Reach, A. J.
notes: label: Description
content: Pinback button advertising A.J. Reach and Co.'s official American Association Baseball.
label: Description
content: The American Association was a professional baseball league that existed from 1882-1891. It was created to rival the existent National League. From 1884-1990 winners of the two leagues met in a championship series that served as a forerunner to the modern World Series.
label: Description
content: Unlike the National League, the American Association offered sales of alcohol and played on Sundays. It also attempted to find success in markets untouched by the National League.
label: Description
content: Four teams that left the AA to join the National League still play today; The Pittsburgh Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Browns (now Cardinals) and the Brooklyn franchise (now the Los Angeles Dodgers.)
label: Description
content: Many names first used in American Association have served as precursors for Major League clubs over the years, including the Baltimore Orioles, New York Metropolitans (Mets,) Chicago White Stockings (White Sox) and Washington Nationals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
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: 1999.3052.204
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3052
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3052.204
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm; x 7/8 in