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Goose Goslin
Outfielder, Bats Left, T RH, Washington Senators 1922-1930,
1933, 1938; St. Louis Browns 1931-1932; Detroit Tigers
1934-1937, 1939
Leon 'Goose' Goslin, a 'Hall of Fame' member, was one of the best hitters in major league baseball history. In a career spanning 18-years, he collected a .316 lifetime batting average, lined 2735 hits and drove in 1609 runs.
Playing for the old Washington Senators in his first full season, Goose Goslin hit .324, the first of seven straight years of batting over .300.
Goslin helped the Senators win their first-ever pennant in 1924 when he led the league with 125 RBIs. He was the batting star in the World Series against the Giants, hitting a two-run homer in a 4-3 win, then in Game 4, Goslin was 4-for-4 with a 3-run home run in a Senators' 7-4 victory. He hit another homer in Game 5. The Senators won the WS in 7 games. The next year, his hitting helped produce another AL pennant but even though he hit 3 homers in the Series, the Senators lost the Series to the Pirates.
Leon Goslin won the AL batting title in 1928 by hitting .379. He was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1930 and hit a career best 37 homers. Goose Goslin hit over .300 nine times in his career, three times hit over .297 and once .288. A line drive hitter, he struck out only 585 times in 8656 at bats.
Leon 'Goose' Goslin career: .316 BA, 2735 hits, 2287 games, .387 on-base-pct, hit 500 doubles, 173 Ts, 248 HRs, .500 slg/pct, scored 1483 runs, 1609 RBIs, 949 walks... baseballhistorian.com
Burleigh Grimes
Pitcher, Right-handed; Pittsburgh Pirates 1916-17, 1928-30;
Brooklyn Dodgers 1918-26; N.Y. Giants 1927; Boston Braves
1930; St. Louis Cardinals 1931, 1934; Chicago Cubs 1932-33
Burleigh Grimes pitched for six National League teams, won 20 games five times, led the league in complete games four times, chalked up a 270-212 lifetime record and was elected to the 'Hall of Fame'.
Burleigh Grimes was the last of baseball's legal spit-ball pitchers.
Pitching for Brooklyn, Grimes' record from 1919-1924 was 19-9, 23-11, 22-13, 17-14, 21-18 and 22-13. In 1918 he posted a 2.14 ERA, started 30 games, completed 19 with 7 shutouts, pitched in relief 10 times in 269.7 innings.
In 1928 at age 35 while pitching for the Pirates, Grimes went 25-14, led the NL in wins, complete games - 28, innings pitched - 331, and shutouts with 4. From 1929-1931, he posted a 50-27 record while pitching for the Pirates, Boston Braves and St. Louis Cardinals.
Burleigh Grimes career stats: 270-212, .560 pct, 3,53 ERA, 616 Games, 497 GS, 314 GC, 35 shutouts in 4179.7 innings.
Waite Hoyt
Pitcher Right-handed; Boston Red Sox 1919-20; New York Yankees
1921-1930; Detroit Tigers 1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932, 1938;
Pittsburgh Pirates 1933-37.
Waite Hoyt won 237 games in his 20 year 'Hall of Fame' career including winning 157 games in 9 years with the New York Yankees. He helped the Yankees win six pennants and three World Series from 1921-1928.
Waite Hoyt won 145 of the Yankees 750 regular season victories and 6 of their 18 World Series' games.
In the 1921 World Series, he pitched 27 innings without allowing an earned run, winning two and losing one. In 1927, he led the American League in wins (22-7) and winning percentage .759. In 1928 Hoyt went 23-7, pitched 237 innings and led the league in saves with 8.
Waite Hoyt stats: 237-182, .566 pct., 3.59 ERA, 674 games, 423 GS, 226 GC, 26 shutouts, 52 saves, 1206 Ks, 1003 Ws in 3762.3 innings, .276 opponents BA, .325 on-base-pct. In 1942, Hoyt began broadcasting Cincinnati Reds baseball, a post he held for 25 years.
Old Baseball Card - Joe Sewell
1933 Goudey Gum Co. - Big League Chewing Gum -
Joe Sewell, New York Yankees; Old Baseball Card -
Wording on the Back Side of Card:
Cleveland Indians signed him hurriedly late in September 1920, to play shortstop after Ray Chapman had died after being hit by a pitched ball. Won the place right away and played in World Series that Fall. Remained with Cleveland until 1931 when he joined the Yankees. Now plays at third base.
Starred in baseball at the University of Alabama before entering professional ball. Born in Titus, Alabama in 1898, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 155 lbs. Bats left-handed, throws right. Last year hit .272 in 124 games. Baseballhistorian.com Archives
Old Baseball Card - Luke Appling
1936 National Chicle Co.; Diamond Stars - Cambridge, Mass.
U.S.A. - Luke Appling, Shortstop - Wording on the Back Side
of the Card:
Luke Appling, White Sox, a gradute of Oglethorpe University of Georgia. Appling is one of the few players who came to the major leagues the same year that he received his diploma and stayed. Regular White Sox shortstop since 1931, he has hit well over .300 for the past three years, a high average for a position, where expert fielding is the vital factor. Fast on the bases, with 12 stolen bases to his credit in 1935, he is fast becoming the game's outstanding stars and one of the players around whom manager Jimmy Dykes hopes to build a pennant contending club.
1935 Chicago White Sox
Pitcher Ted Lyons, Luke Appling and Al Simmons made
the Hall of Fame
1935 Chicago White Sox Statistics:
The White Sox finished in 5th place with a 74-78 record, 19 1/2 games out of first place. The team's pitching ranked 5th best in the AL with a 4.38 ERA and the Sox were 7th in batting with a .275 mark.
The pitching staff was led by Hall of Famer Ted Lyons who posted a 15-8 W/L record and his 3.02 ERA was second lowest in the American League, trailing only Lefty Grove's 2.70.
Hall of Famers, shortstop Luke Appling and outfielder Al Simmons were aided by long time veteran 2B/3B Jimmy Dykes, rookie outfielder Rip Radcliff and power-hitting first baseman Zeke Bonura.
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Chicago White Sox 1935 Pitching Stats:
Ted Lyons 15-8, 3.02 ERA in 23 Games... Vern Kennedy 11-11, 3.91 ERA in 31G... Les Tietje 9-15, 4.30 ERA in 30G... John Whitehead 13-13, 3.72 ERA in 28G... Whit Wyatt 4-3, 6.75 ERA in 30G... Sam Jones 8-7, 4.05 ERA in 21G... Jack Salveson 1-2, 4.86 ERA in 20G...
Joe Vance 2-2, 6.68 ERA in 10G... Carl Fischer 5-5, 6.19 ERA in 24G... Ray Phelps 4-8, 4.82 ERA in 27G... George Earnshaw 1-2, 9.00 ERA in 3G... Monty Stratton 1-2, 4.03 ERA in 5G... Italo Chelini 0-0, 12.60 ERA in 2G... Lee Stine 0-0, 9.00 ERA in 1G...
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Batting Average Statistics:
Luke Appling .307 BA, 1Hr, 71 RBIs in 153 Games... Zeke Bonura .295 BA, 21 Hr, 92 RBIs in 138G... Jocko Conlan .286 BA, 0Hr, 15 RBIs in 65G... Jimmy Dykes .288 BA, 4Hr, 61 RBIs in 117G... Luke Sewell .285 BA, 2Hr, 67 RBIs in 118G... Mule Haas .291, 2Hr, 40 RBIs in 92G...
Al Simmons .267, 16Hr, 79 RBIs in 128G... Tony Piet .298 BA, 3Hr, 27 RBIs in 77G... George Washington .283 BA, 8Hr, 47 RBIs in 108G... Jackie Hayes .267 BA, 4Hr, 45 RBIs in 89G... Fred Tauby .125 BA, 0Hr, 2 RBIs in 13G... Mike Kreevich .435 BA, 0Hr, 2 RBIs in 6G...
Rip Radcliff .286, 10Hr, 68 RBIs in 146G... Marty Hopkins .222 BA, 2Hr, 17 RBIs in 59G... Frank Grube .368 BA, 0Hr, 6 RBIs in 9G... Ted Lyons p, .220 BA, 0Hr, 6 RBIs in 29G... Merv Shea .230 BA, 0Hr, 13 RBIs in 46G... Glenn Wright .120 BA, 0Hr, 1 Rbi in 9G... Bud Hafey no at-bats in 2G...
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'Nixey' Callahan - No Wimp This Player! |
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James Joseph 'Nixey' Callahan was a phenomenally gifted all-around athletic. 'Nixey' could run and throw with the best, and did of a lot of everything in the major leagues. He was a star outfielder, a star pitcher and a fine infielder while playing every position but catcher in a resounding baseball career that lasted from age 20 to age 39.
Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on March 18, 1874. 'Nixey' was a two-time twenty game winner for the Chicago Cubs going 20-10 in 1898 and 21-12 in 1899. He started pitching for the Cubs in 1897 and was 12-9 for a 59-73 ball club and completed 21 of his 22 starts and when he wasn't pitching that season, he played 30 games at 2nd base, 18 at shortstop, 2 at 3rd base, and 21 in the outfield, while batting .292.
So how come the current crop of major league pitchers can't last more than 5 innings; the infielders and outfielders always have something called a pulled hamstring? Say, what! In fact - most big league players never heard of a hamstring 20 years ago. Anyway getting back to our hero 'Nixey' Callahan -
The durable Callahan was one of the first National League players signed by Charles Comiskey when the new American League was formed in 1901. 'Nixey' helped the Chicago White Sox win the first-ever AL pennant in 1901 by posting a 15-8 record with a brilliant 2.42 ERA. And he played 15 other games in the OF-IF, and batted .331 for the year. In 1902, he pitched the first no-hitter in American League history and gathered a 16-14 W-L record.
In 1903, the 28-year-old Callahan became the White Sox player- manager replacing Clark Griffin. Nixey pitched only 3-games that year - but hit .292 in 118 games, 102 of them at third base. He stayed with the White Sox until 1905, left the majors for over six years, to organize the then-famous Logan Square semi-pro team of Chicago. In 1911, at the age of 37, Nixey returned to the White Sox hit .281 in 120 games and stole 45 bases. The next season he became player-manager again and led the club to a 78-74 finish (4th place). He stayed with the club for two more seasons and a year later was hired to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Nixey Callahan's career pitching record 99-73, 3.39 ERA, started 177 games, completed 169 of them! Batting record .273 BA in 3295 at bats, 135 Ds, 46 Ts, 11 Hrs, 186 stolen bases, 442 runs, 394 RBIs.
OF, Pitcher, 3B, IF, Right-handed Philadelphia Phillies 1894; Chicago Colts (Cubs) 1897-1900; Chicago White Sox 1901-1905 and 1911-1913
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