Kansas City Scouts Button
date: label: date made
content: 1974 - 1976
notes: label: Description
content: Button for the National Hockey League team, the Kansas City Scouts. The Scouts joined the NHL in 1974 as an expansion team. They were named after the famous statue <i>The Scout <i> by Cyrus E. Dallin, which stands in the Missouri city's Penn Valley Park. The statue also served as the team's logo.
label: Description
content: After two unsuccessful seasons, the team moved to Denver to become the Colorado Rockies, relocating again in 1982 to become the New Jersey Devils.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
topic: label: name of sport
content: Hockey
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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: 1982.0257.096
label: accession number
content: 1982.0257
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0257.096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, ice hockey
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in; x 8.5725 cm