1. materials characteristic of baseball and the culture of baseball; 2. collectible baseball Americana
1977
Hall of Fame manager Bucky Harris dies on his 81st birthday. Harris won two World Championships and three American League pennants over a 29-year career with the Washington Senators and New York Yankees, among other teams.
1924
Clark Griffith picks 27-year-old second baseman Bucky Harris to manage the Washington Senators. Harris was 22 years old when he broke into MLB on August 28, 1919, with the Washington club. The Senators would win their only World Series championship in ’24 with Harris at the helm.
1934
Bucky Harris, who managed the 1924 and 1925 American League champion Senators, is hired back by Washington to replace youthful Joe Cronin, who had been sold to the Boston Red Sox. Harris will make the Hall of Fame as a manager by vote of the Veterans Committee in 1975.
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