Leo Hartnett
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: New York Yankees
notes: label: Description
content: White metal tab pin depicting Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett. The pin is part of 1938's "Our National Game" series.
label: Description
content: Catcher Leo “Gabby” Hartnett played Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs for 18 seasons, (1922-1940) becoming the club’s player manager in 1938. a position he would hold for two seasons. A six-time All-Star, the backstop was the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1935, hitting .344 and leading the North Siders to the NL pennant. In 1941, the veteran catcher joined the New York Giants for his final season. Overall, Hartnett hit .297 with 1,1932 hits, 236 home runs and 1,179 runs batted in. In his two seasons as Chicago’s player manager, he accumulated a 203-176 win-loss record. Hartnett was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
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: 1996.0213.233
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.233
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