Gus Mancuso
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: New York Giants
notes: label: Description
content: White metal pin with image of New York Giants’ catcher Gus Mancuso. The pin is part of a 1938 set known as <i>Our National Game</i>.
label: Description
content: Catcher Gus Mancuso played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals (1928, 1930-1932, 1941-1942), New York Giants (1933-1938, 1942-1944), Chicago Cubs (1939), Brooklyn Dodgers (1940), and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). Winning two World Series as a reserve player with the Cardinals, the defensive-minded backstop made two All-Star teams as a Giant. At the plate, Mancuso compiled a lifetime batting average of .265 with 1,194 hits, 53 home runs and 543 runs batted in, but is best remembered as a signal caller, successfully working with Hall of Fame pitchers such as Dizzy Dean and Grover Cleveland Alexander.
label: Description
content: During the 1950s, Mancuso called Cardinals games on the radio with Harry Caray.
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: 1996.0213.299
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.299
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