Dizzy Dean Winners
date: label: date made
content: 1935-1936
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Dean, Dizzy
label: Associated Name
content: St. Louis Cardinals
label: maker
content: General Foods Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Pin back button featuring baseball player Dizzy Dean. The pin was part of a promotion for General Foods’ Grape-Nuts cereal.
label: Description
content: Pitcher Jay “Dizzy” Dean played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1930, 1932-1937). Chicago Cubs (1938-1941) and St. Louis Browns (1947). The right-hander had a lifetime 150-83 win-loss record with 1,163 strikeouts and a 3.02 earned run average. A four-time All-Star, Dizzy led the League in strikeouts four times, including in1934, a year that saw the hurler take home a Most Valuable Player award and a World Series championship. He was perhaps the most notable member of the “Gashouse Gang”, the moniker applied to St. Louis’s formidable lineup of the late twenties and early thirties, which also included Dean’s brother Paul, nicknamed “Daffy.” After retirement, Dean served as a broadcaster for the St. Louis Browns, making a one-game appearance on the mound in 1947 for publicity purposes. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Advertising Devices
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: 1996.0213.335
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.335
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin, baseball
label: Object Name
content: advertising premium
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm