Jimmie Foxx
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: Boston Red Sox
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Foxx, Jimmie
label: Associated Name
content: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
notes: label: Description
content: 1938 <i>Our National Game<i> series pin, featuring Boston Red Sox player Jimmie Foxx. The pin spells the slugger's name as "Jimmy".
label: Description
content: First baseman Jimmie Foxx played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1925-1935), Boston Red Sox (1936-1942), Chicago Cubs (1942, 1944) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). A nine time All-Star, Foxx led the league in hitting twice, runs batted in three times, and home runs four. He earned three MVP awards, including one in 1933, a year the powerful right-hander won baseball’s “Triple Crown” (leading the League in the three major offensive statistical categories). A two-time World Series champion with the Athletics, Foxx finished his remarkable career with a lifetime .325 batting average, 2, 646 hits, 534 home runs and 1,922 runs batted in. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951. In 1952 he managed the Fort Wayne Daises of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and was head coach for the University of Miami from 1956-1957.
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: 1996.0213.230
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.230
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