Joe Cronin
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: Boston Red Sox
label: Associated Name
content: Washington Senators
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin with image of Boston Red Sox infielder Joe Cronin. The pin is part of the 1938 <i>Our National Game</i> series. It was originally affixed to a cardboard backing.The pin correctly names Cronin as being on Boston that year, but features an earlier image of him wearing a Senators hat.
label: Description
content: Shortstop Joe Cronin played Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1926-1927), Washington Senators (1928-1934) and Boston Red Sox (1935-1945). A seven-time All-Star, Cronin compiled a lifetime .301 batting average with 2,285 hits, 170 home runs and 1,424 runs batted in. In 1933 he began to serve as the Senators player manager, continuing in the role after joining the Red Sox. Retiring from the field in 1945, he continued to manage Boston for two more seasons. Over he amassed a 1,236-1,055 managerial win-loss record before moving to the front office, becoming Boston's General Manager in 1947 He would remain in that position until 1959, when he was elected President of the American League, a role he held until 1937.
label: Description
content: Cronin was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956.
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: 1996.0213.298
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.298
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