Chicago White Sox Skyline

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Text on Button CHICAGO WHITE SOX
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A black and white simplified illustration of the Chicago skyline divides the button in half with black text on a red background on the top and white text on a blue background on the bottom 

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CRANE POTATO CHIPS
BASEBALL
CONTEST
DEPT.
DECATUR, ILLINOIS

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The Chicago White Sox are an American Major League Baseball team affiliated with the American League. Originally founded in 1894 as a minor league team, the Sioux City, Iowa Cornhuskers, the team moved to Chicago—and the major leagues—with the new name, The White Stockings. In 1904, the team name changed a third, and final, time to the White Sox. 

In the 1960s, potato chip companies like Crane Potato Chips sold bags of chips containing an MLB memorabilia button like this one. These buttons could be collected and redeemed for a fitting prize: a baseball! Crane Potato Chips, originally founded in 1928 as Licek Potato Chip Co., operated out of Decatur, Illinois. Each baseball button has DECATUR, ILL. proudly stamped on the backside.

Sources
Admin. (2020, April 29). Remember this? MLB pinback buttons. Northeast News. https://northeastnews.net/pages/remember-this-mlb-pinback-buttons/
 
Allyson. (2010, November 11). Potato chip pins - Crane’s pins and Guy’s pins. Baseball Card News by DeansCards.com. http://blog.deanscards.com/2010/11/potato-chip-pins.html
 
28 firms joined the potato chip institute 25 years ago. (1967, January). The Potato Chipper, 72–110.
 
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