Oscar Stanage
name: label: Associated Name
content: Detroit Tigers
label: maker
content: Whitehead and Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sweet Caporal Cigarette promotional pinback button featuring baseball player Oscar Stanage.
label: Description
content: Catcher Oscar Stanage made one plate appearance for the Cincinnati Reds in 1906 before being sent to the Minors. He rejoined the Major Leagues in 1909, settling in with the Detroit Tigers, where he would remain for the rest of his career: ending in 1920 (except in a limited role as a player/coach in 1924.) One of the game’s all-time greatest defensive backstops, Stanage set the record for most assists in a season (1911) and appears on the career leaders list in many defensive categories. Not as prolific with the bat, the native Californian had a lifetime .234 batting average with 321 runs batted in. The long-time Tiger’s reputation was marred by game-fixing allegations, but did not stop him from working as a coach in baseball.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: level of sport
content: Major League
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: 1993.0245.045
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0245.045
label: accession number
content: 1993.0245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm