Al Simmons
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: Washington Senators
notes: label: Description
content: White metal tab button depicting Washington Senators player Al Simmons. The pin is part of 1938's "Our National Game" series.
label: Description
content: Outfielder Aloysius “Al” Simmons played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1924-1932, 1940-1941,1944), Chicago White Sox (1933-1935), Detroit Tigers (1936), Washington Senators (1937-1938), Boston Bees (1939) Cincinnati Reds (1939) and Boston Red Sox (1943). A two-time batting champion (1930, 1931), Simmons won two World Series with the Athletics and was an All-Star every year he played in Chicago. The right-handed slugger posted a career batting average of .334 with 2,927 hits, 307 home runs and 1,829 runs batted in. In 1953 he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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: 1996.0213.217
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.217
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