Johnny Pesky
date: label: date made
content: 1947-1952
name: label: Associated Name
content: Boston Red Sox
label: maker
content: Exhibit Supply Company
notes: label: Description
content: Exhibits vending machine postcard featuring Boston Red Sox baseball player Johnny Pesky.
label: Description
content: Born John Michael Paveskovich, infielder Johnny Pesky (1919-2012) played Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1942, 1946-1952), Detroit Tigers (1952-1954) and Washington Senators (1954.) Pesky served in the United States Navy during the Second World War.
label: Description
content: An All-Star in 1946, Pesky twice led the Majors in hits, finishing his career with 1,455. He had a lifetime .307 batting average and a career .394 on base percentage.
label: Description
content: Pesky served as manager of the Red Sox from 1963-1964 (and for five games during the 1980 season). Boston’s Fenway Park’s right field foul pole has been christened “Pesky’s Pole” after the first-generation American born of Croat immigrants.
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: 2000.3001.017
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3001.017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard, baseball
label: Object Name
content: card, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm