Rudolph "Rudy" York Baseball Card, 1939

File — Box: 4265.001, Folder: 33

Scope and Contents

This file contains a baseball card depicting Rudolph "Rudy" York, who played minor league baseball with the Shreveport Sports in 1933 and then moved into the major league in 1937 with the Detroit Tigers. In his career, he played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Athletics, primarily as a first baseman. The card, no. 260 of a series 288 baseball stars, indicates that he had played catcher for the Tigers for two years at the time of printing (1939).

Dates

Creation: 1939

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Materials are in English.

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