Joe Medwick
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: St. Louis Cardinals
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin featuring St. Louis Cardinal outfielder Joe Medwick. The pin is part of 1938's <i>Our American Game </i> series.
label: Description
content: Outfielder Joe Medwick played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1932-1940, 1947-1948, Brooklyn Dodgers (1940-1943, 1946), New York Giants (1943-1945) and Boston Braves (1945). A lifetime .324 hitter, the right-handed slugger compiled 205 home runs, 2, 471 hits and 1,383 runs batted in for his career. In 1934 he won a World Series as part of “the Gashouse Gang”, a Cardinals team that also featured notable players such as Dizzy Dean, Frankie Frisch and Burleigh Grimes. A ten-time All-Star, Medwick won baseball’s “triple crown” in 1937, leading the League in three major offensive categories He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968.
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: 1996.0213.235
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.235
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