Red Ruffing
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: depicted
content: Ruffing, Red
label: associated institution
content: New York Yankees
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin featuring New York Yankee Charles "Red" Ruffing (1905-1986.) The pin is part of the 1938 <i>Our National Game</i> series. It was originally was affixed to a cardboard backing.
label: Description
content: Pitcher Red Ruffing played Major League baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1924-1930,) New York Yankees (1930-1942, 1945-1946,) and Chicago White Sox (1947.) The Illinois native missed the 1943-1944 due to military service during the Second World War.
label: Description
content: Ruffing found his greatest success as a member of the powerhouse Yankee teams of the 1930s and 1940s, making all six of his All-Star game appearences and winning six world series during his time with the team. Amassing a lifetime 273-225 win-loss record, the right hander had a career 3.80 earned run average with 1,987 strikeouts.
label: Description
content: In 1967, he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Baseball
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: 1982.0566.28
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0566.28
label: accession number
content: 1982.0566
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: pin
label: Object Name
content: pin, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7/8 in; x 2.2225 cm