Jake Powell
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: New York Yankees
notes: label: Description
content: 1938 <i>Our National Game<i> series pin, featuring New York Yankees player Jake Powell.
label: Description
content: Outfielder Jake Powell played Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators (1930, 1934-1936, 1943-1945), New York Yankees (1936-1940) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). A three-time World Series champion with the Yankees, the right-handed batter compiled a lifetime .271 batting average with 689 hits, 22 home runs and 327 runs batted in. Following a career marred by bigoted and illicit behavior, Powell took his own life in 1948.
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: 1996.0213.223
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.223
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