This Hall of Famer has to rank as one of the greatest player of all time. Tris was remarkably injury free over his long baseball career. Tip your hat to this fans' favorite; who personally brought fans cheering his every catch and his ability to hit over .375 - 4 times in a year. baseballhistorian.com archives All Rights Reserved Tris Speaker

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Voted the Most Valuable Player in 1949. Voted into the "Hall of Fame" - We salute you, Mr. Jackie Robinson! You made baseball the great game that it is today. Baseball Historian All Rights Reserved Jackie Robinson radio broadcast

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Around 70 percent of the men listed on American Heroes, including Jackie Robinson, served in the US Military, and we are proud to call them American Heroes... many who served saw battle action during World War I or II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War or were veterans in other conflicts.

Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson joined the military in 1918, was sent overseas to the Western Front, got a whiff of poison gas which caused Tuberculosis in both lungs and died in 1925 at age 45.

Red Sox slugger Ted Williams flew 42 missions over Korea in 1951-52 after also serving during World War II.

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Honus Wagner smashed 651 lifetime doubles, 252 triples, lined 3415 hits and had a career batting average of .327. Honus scored 1736 runs and drove home 1732 runs. Honus Wagner was an excellent fielding shortstop with a quick, strong throwing arm. He led the league in stolen bases five times and had 722 lifetime stolen bases.

In 1900, he batted .381. Wagner led the Pirates to four pennants including three in a row, 1901-1903. Honus Wagner won eight batting crowns, four slugging titles, led the league in doubles eight times, and in extra base hits seven times. This Hall of Famer is ranked by many as the greatest shortstop of all-time.

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From 1872-75, he played in the old National Association of Professional Baseball and averaged 31 wins per/yr. Candy Cummings played only two seasons in our newly formed major leagues and his record was 21-22, ERA 2.78. He started 43 games and completed 40 and pitched 5 shutouts. Copyright 2003 by baseballhistorian.com

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Baseball History - While playing for the St. Louis Browns (AL), he arose as a star in 1920 when he hit .407 and set the major league record for most hits in a single season with 257, a record unbroken during the 1900s.

In 1922 George Sisler topped that by hitting .422, the second highest average in that century. Sisler was in a class by himself as a first baseman and he led the AL in seven different years in assists and led the league in various fielding categories 16 times. He held the major league record for career assists by a first baseman, 1,528.

George Sisler lined over 200 hits in six different seasons and was a league leader in batting 11 times and led the league in stolen bases in four different years. Sisler retired at the age of 36 after playing 15 seasons and his .340 career batting mark is 15th highest in baseball history ( tied with Lou Gehrig ).

George Sisler's career totals: .340 BA, 8267 at bats, 2812 hits, 425 doubles, 165 triples, 100 HR's, 1284 runs, 1175 RBI's, .468 slugging, and 375 stolen bases. George Sisler ranks as one of the top players of the last century. baseballhistorian.com archives Baseball Players

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From 1893 thru 1896, he hit .368, .407, .404 and .397. In 1899, Delahanty again batted over .400 - setting a baseball record for hitting over .400 for three different years. Only Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby have since equaled this great batting feat. Also in 1899, Delahanty led the league in hits with 238, 55 doubles and 137 RBI's.

At age 35, on July 2, 1903, Delahanty, the defending AL batting champ while drinking at Niagara Falls, ignored the bridge tender's warning that the draw bridge was opened, fell into the river and was never seen alive again. One week later his' body was found some 20 miles below the falls. Ed Delahanty's 16 year career records include: .346 batting average 1835 games, 2597 hits, 522 doubles, 185 triples, 101 home runs, averaged 100 runs scored per/year with 1599, RBI's 1464, and struck-out only 244 times in 7505 at bats. Baseball Historian

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By the middle of that season, special trains were run from Cleveland whenever Alta Weiss was slated to pitch in the Cleveland Naps (Indians) ballpark, routinely drawing over 3,000.

The Loran Times Herald wrote in 1907: - 'Miss Alta Weiss can easily lay claim to being the only one who can handle the ball from the pitcher's box in such style that some of the best semi-pros are made to fan the atmosphere.'

Throwing a natural sinking fastball, Alta Weiss used her intelligence and changed her pitching-speed to baffle even the best of men hitters. She was paid handsomely and made enough to put her through medical school, and, even after she was a practicing physician she continued to pitch in men's leagues well into the decade of the 1920s.

About her uniform, Alta Weiss told reporters, 'I found out that you can't play in skirts... I tried. I wore a skirt over my bloomers and nearly broke my neck. Finally, I was forced to discard it, and now always wear bloomers, but made wide enough that the fullness gives a skirt-like effect.'

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