New York Yankees Button
date: label: Date made
content: 1961
name: label: referenced
content: New York Yankees
notes: label: Description
content: Button commemorating the New York Yankees baseball team's winning of the American League Pennant in 1961. Managed by Ralph Houk, the Yankee’s went 109-53-1, going on the defeat the National League Champion Cincinnati Reds in the World Series 4 games to 1.
label: Description
content: The Yankee’s campaign was marked by a race between outfielders Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break the record for most home runs in a season, previously set by former Yankee Babe Ruth, who hit 60 in 1927. Maris would be the one to break the record, hitting his 61st on the final day of regular season play.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: level of sport
content: Major League
label: web subject
content: Sports
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: 1982.0257.097
label: accession number
content: 1982.0257
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0257.097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in; x 8.5725 cm