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American League
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The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League, is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a league based in the Great Lakes states. It is sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season,25 years after the formation of the National League. At the end of season, the American League champion plays in the World Series against the National League champion. Through 2016, American League teams have won 64 of the 112 World Series played since 1903, the 2016 American League champions are the Cleveland Indians. The New York Yankees have won 40 American League titles, the most in the history, followed by the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, the American League later developed into a major league after the American Association disbanded, in its early history, the Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league. Johnson led the Western League into major league status and soon became the president of the newly renamed American League, babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League. The American League has one notable difference versus the National League, in 1902, the Milwaukee Brewers moved to St. Louis and were renamed the St. Louis Browns. In 1902, The Cleveland Bluebirds were also renamed the Cleveland Broncos, in 1903, the Broncos were renamed the Cleveland Naps. In 1915, the Naps were renamed the Cleveland Indians, in 1903, the Baltimore Orioles moved to New York and were renamed the New York Highlanders. In 1913, the Highlanders were renamed the New York Yankees, in 1904, the Chicago White Stockings were renamed the Chicago White Sox. In 1908, the Boston Americans were renamed the Boston Red Sox, in 1954, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and were renamed as the Baltimore Orioles. In 1955, the Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City and were renamed as the Kansas City Athletics, in 1961, the league expanded and added two teams as the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, expanding the league to 10 teams. The original Senators team moved to Minneapolis/St, Paul in 1961 and were renamed as the Minnesota Twins. The Angels team name changed to the California Angels in 1966, then to the Anaheim Angels in 1997, the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots were added to the American League, expanding the league to 12 teams. In 1970, the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee and were renamed the Milwaukee Brewers, in 1972, the Washington Senators relocated to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and were renamed the Texas Rangers. In 1977, the league expanded to fourteen teams, when the Seattle Mariners, in 1998, the Tampa Bay Rays was added to the American League and at the same time, the Milwaukee Brewers were switched to the National League, leaving the American League with 14 teams
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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John I. Taylor
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John Irving Taylor owned the Boston Red Sox from 1904 until 1911. He was the son of General Charles H. Taylor, publisher of the Boston Globe and he purchased the team from Henry Killilea on April 19,1904, with his father Charles serving as a minority owner. In September 1911, the Taylors sold half of the stock in the team to Jimmy McAleer, mcRoy with McAleer taking over as team president. On December 21,1913, Joseph Lannin, Frank P. Cooper, on May 15,1914, Lannin bought out all of his partners and became sole owner of the Red Sox. In later years Taylor lived in Dedham, Massachusetts, and died after an illness on January 26,1938. He is interred with his wife Daisy in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA
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Deacon McGuire
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James Thomas Deacon McGuire was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach whose career spanned the years 1883 to 1915. He played 26 seasons in Major League Baseball, principally as a catcher and his longest stretches were with the Washington Statesmen/Senators, Brooklyn Superbas and New York Highlanders. He played on Brooklyn teams that won National League pennants in 1899 and 1900 and his assist, caught stealing, and stolen bases allowed totals remain current major league records. During his major league career, he compiled a.278 batting average.341 on-base percentage,770 runs scored,1,750 hits,300 doubles,79 triples,45 home runs,840 RBIs and 118 stolen bases. His best season was 1895 when he caught a major league record 133 games, McGuire was also the manager of the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. He compiled a 210–287 as a major league manager, McGuire was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1863. He moved as a boy to Cleveland, learned to play baseball on the lots of that city, as a young man, he moved to Albion, Michigan, where he worked as an apprentice in an iron foundry in Albion and played baseball on the weekend. McGuire first gained note playing baseball for a team in Hastings, Michigan, McGuire was reputed to be the only catcher within a 50-mile radius who could handle the left-handed Baldwin and his incendiary fastball and sinuous curve, a so-called snakeball. At age 19, McGuire began his baseball career in 1883 with the Terre Haute, Indiana. McGuire made his league debut in June 1884 with the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association. He hit.185 in 151 at bats and appeared in 45 games, at Toledo, he shared the catching responsibilities with Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. McGuire and Walker each caught 41 games for the Blue Stockings, the Blue Stockings finished in eighth place with a 46–58 record and folded after the 1884 season. McGuire began the 1885 season playing for the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the newly formed Western League, McGuire appeared in 16 games for the Hoosiers, who were the dominant team in the Western League, compiling an.880 winning percentage. Sam Thompson later told the story of the Detroit Wolverines acquisition of the Indianapolis players. Detroit sent two representatives to Indianapolis, principally to sign the Hoosiers battery of Larry McKeon and Jim Keenan, the Wolverines were outbid by the Cincinnati Reds for McKeon and Keenan but wound up with the Hoosiers manager and the rest of the teams starting lineup. The only catch was that a 10-day waiting period would allow teams to outbid Detroit. Marsh and Maloney promptly sent the players to Detroit and quartered them in a hotel there, the next morning, the players were told that the team had arranged a fishing trip for them. The players boarded the steamship Annette and enjoyed the first day, after three days, the players became suspicious, but the ship captain laughed when asked when they would return to Detroit
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Fred Lake
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Frederick Lovett Lake was a Canadian professional baseball catcher and Major League manager for Boston American and National leagues teams in the early 20th century. Lake hailed from Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia and his professional debut came with the Boston Beaneaters in 1891, but he was in and out of the Major Leagues, amassing a total of 125 at-bats in five seasons. He was hired as manager of the Boston Red Sox in 1908, shortly after, he was hired by the crosstown Boston Doves, but in his only season for them, he finished 53–100, 50½ games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. In addition, he played or managed in the Minor leagues in part of 11 seasons spanning 1896–1926, Lake was a long time resident of Boston, where he died at the age of 65. Lake was the child of Nova Scotians Wesley and Julia Lake. Before having Fred in 1866, the couple had given birth to their first child, Edgar James, their son, Rupert. The family moved to Boston in 1868, when Fred was 2, Wesley died sometime between 1872 and 1879, leaving Julia to raise her seven children alone in East Boston. As a young teenager, Fred was dependent on his mother as well as his two brothers who had jobs in a local pottery factory. He attended the elementary and high school where he learned to play baseball. Aptly nicknamed the baseball tourist, Fred Lake spent his career frequently changing both leagues and teams. He began his career at the age of 20 after joining the Salem Baseball Club and he did not stay for long, though, and moved on to teams in Dover, New Hampshire, and Hingham, Massachusetts. According to the Hingham Journal, his season with the team was the best one they had had up to that time, in 1890 he joined the New Brunswick Provincial League back in Canada and was hired as the captain and manager of the Moncton team. After a successful season, he was recruited for the National League Boston Beaneaters, after his first season in the major league with the Beaneaters, he went back to the minor league for two seasons with Milwaukee and Wilkes-Barre. He then rejoined the National League in 1894 with the Louisville Colonels, in 1895 he went back to the minor leagues with Toronto, followed by a season with Kansas City in 1896. In 1897 he rejoined the Beaneaters and played them for one season before joining the Pittsburg Pirates for the 1898 season. In 1899, he left the league again and played semi-pro for Lowell, Massachusetts. He stayed with the Lowell team until 1905, and then joined New Bedford, then Lawrence, in 1907 he played for Little Rock, Arkansas and became a scout for the Boston Red Sox. Lake was credited for discovering some great players such as Tris Speaker, Smokey Joe Wood, Harry Hooper and Bill Carrigan
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1907 Boston Americans season
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The 1907 Boston Americans season was the seventh season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished seventh in the American League with a record of 59 wins and 90 losses, the team played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds. Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. com
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Boston Red Sox
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The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the American League East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in 13, founded in 1901 as one of the American Leagues eight charter franchises, the Red Sox home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The Red Sox name was chosen by the owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908, following the lead of previous teams that had known as the Boston Red Stockings. Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903 and winning four more championships by 1918. Following their victory in the 2013 World Series, they became the first team to win three World Series trophies in the 21st century, including championships in 2004 and 2007. Red Sox history has also marked by the teams intense rivalry with the Yankees. The Boston Red Sox are owned by Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Liverpool F. C. of the Premier League in England. The Red Sox are consistently one of the top MLB teams in road attendance. From May 15,2003 to April 10,2013, the Red Sox sold out every home game—a total of 820 games for a professional sports record. Neil Diamonds Sweet Caroline has become an anthem for the Red Sox, the name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning 1908. Sox had been adopted for the Chicago White Sox by newspapers needing a headline-friendly form of Stockings. The team name Red Sox had previously used as early as 1888 by a colored team from Norfolk. The Spanish language media sometimes refers to the team as Medias Rojas, the official Spanish site uses the variant Los Red Sox. The Red Stockings nickname was first used by a team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings and earned the famous nickname, the Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league. Other names were used before Boston officially adopted the nickname Braves in 1912
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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media
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Cy Young
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Denton True Cy Young was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. During his 22-season baseball career, he pitched for five different teams, Young established numerous pitching records, some of which have stood for a century. Young compiled 511 wins, which is most in Major League history and 94 ahead of Walter Johnson, Young was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. One year after Youngs death, the Cy Young Award was created to honor the previous seasons best pitcher, in addition to wins, Young still holds the major league records for most career innings pitched, most career games started, and most complete games. He also retired with 316 losses, the most in MLB history, Youngs 76 career shutouts are fourth all-time. He also won at least 30 games in a five times. In addition, Young pitched three no-hitters, including the perfect game in baseball history, first in baseballs modern era. In 1999,88 years after his major league appearance and 44 years after his death. That same year, baseball fans named him to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, Youngs career started in 1890 with the Cleveland Spiders. After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899, after two years there, Young jumped to the newly created American League, joining the Boston franchise. He was traded back to Cleveland in 1909, before spending the two months of his career with the Boston Rustlers. After his retirement, Young went back to his farm in Ohio, Cy Young was the oldest child born to McKinzie Young, Jr. and German American Nancy Mottmiller. The couple had four children, Jesse Carlton, Alonzo, Ella. When the couple married, McKinzies father gave him the 54 acres of land he owned. Young was born in Gilmore, a farming community located in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County. He was christened Denton True Young, Some sources later, and even today, list his middle name erroneously as Tecumseh, apparently as a result of being nicknamed The Chief by teammates. He was raised on one of the farms and went by the name Dent Young in his early years. Young was also known as Farmer Young and Farmboy Young, Young stopped his formal education after he completed the sixth grade so he could help out on the familys farm
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No-hitter
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In baseball, a no-hitter is a game in which a team was not able to record a single hit. Major League Baseball officially defines a no-hitter as a game in which a team that batted in at least nine innings recorded no hits. A pitcher who prevents the team from achieving a hit is said to have thrown a no-hitter. This is an accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff, only 295 have been thrown in Major League Baseball history since 1876. In most cases in MLB, no-hitters are recorded by a pitcher who throws a complete game. The most recent no-hitter by a pitcher was thrown on April 21,2016 by Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs against the Cincinnati Reds at Cincinnatis Great American Ball Park. The most recent combined no-hitter was thrown by Cole Hamels, Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and it is possible to reach base without a hit, most commonly by a walk, error, or being hit by a pitch. A no-hitter in which no batters reach base at all is a perfect game, on two occasions, a team has thrown a nine-inning no-hitter and still lost the game. It is theoretically possible for opposing pitchers to throw no-hitters in the same game, although this has never happened in the majors. A no-hitter is defined by Major League Baseball as follows, An official no-hit game occurs when a pitcher allows no hits during the course of a game. Games lost by the team in 8½ innings but without allowing any hits do not qualify as no-hitters. Major League Baseball has officially recognized 295 no-hitters thrown since 1876, two no-hitters have been thrown on the same day twice, Ted Breitenstein and Jim Hughes on April 22,1898, and Dave Stewart and Fernando Valenzuela on June 29,1990. Eight no-hitters were thrown by major league pitchers in the 1884 season, in the modern era, seven no-hitters were thrown in 1990,1991,2012, and 2015. The longest period between any two no-hitters in the era is 3 years,44 days between Bobby Burke on August 8,1931, and Paul Daffy Dean on September 21,1934. There was a drought of 3 years,11 months, without a no-hitter after the first National League no-hitter on July 15,1876, the most recent year without any no-hitters is 2005. The previous record was a 4, 015-game streak without a no-hitter from September 30,1984, the pitcher who holds the record for the most no-hitters is Nolan Ryan, who threw seven in his long career. His first two came exactly two months apart, while he was with the California Angels, the first on May 15,1973, and he had two more with the Angels on September 28,1974, and June 1,1975. Ryans fifth no-hitter with the Houston Astros on September 26,1981 and his sixth and seventh no-hitters came with the Texas Rangers on June 1,1990, and May 1,1991
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Road (sports)
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A road game or away game is a sports game where the specified team is not the host and must travel to another venue. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions, each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When a team is not the host, it must travel to games. Thus, when a team is not hosting a game, the team is described as the team, the visiting team, or the away team. The venue in which the game is played is described as the stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team, major sporting events, if not held at a neutral venue, are often over several legs at each teams home ground, so that neither team has an advantage over the other. Occasionally, the team may not have to travel very far at all to a road game. These matches often become local derbies, a few times a year, a road team may even be lucky enough to have the road game played at their own home stadium or arena. This is prevalent in college athletics where many schools will play in regional leagues or groundshare. The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U. S. college sports in the 21st century, while regular-season tournaments and other special events have been part of college sports from their creation, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of such events. These are typically held at sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U. S. or even outside the country entirely. In turn, this has led to the use of true road game to refer to contests played at one home venue. In some association football leagues, particularly in Europe, the teams fans sit in their own section. Depending on the stadium, they will either sit in a designated section or be separated from the home fans by a cordon of police officers. However, in the leagues in England, supporters may be free to mix. When games are played at a site, for instance the FA Cup final in England which is always played at Wembley Stadium. This results in each team occupying one half of the stadium and this is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where very few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium. Home and away fans are not separated at these games
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1908 Washington Senators season
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The 1908 Washington Senators won 67 games, lost 85, and finished in seventh place in the American League. They were managed by Joe Cantillon and played games at National Park. October 5,1907, Charlie Jones was traded by the Senators to the St. Louis Browns for Ollie Pickering, may 31,1908, Casey Patten was traded by the Senators to the Boston Red Sox for Jesse Tannehill. Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. baseball-almanac. com
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Jack Thoney
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Listed at 5 ft 10 in,175 lb. Thoney batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in a six-season career, Thoney was a.237 hitter with three home runs and 73 RBI in 264 games, including 112 runs,23 doubles,12 triples and 42 stolen bases. He made 225 appearances at left field, center field, third base, right field, second base, Thoney died at the age of 68 in Covington, Kentucky
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Harry Lord
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Harry Donald Lord was an American professional baseball player who was a member of the founding team of the Boston Red Sox in 1908. Harry Lord was born in Porter, Maine on March 8,1882, Lord was 25 years old when he began to play professionally in September 25,1907, with the Boston Americans. Harry Lord was a third baseman for eleven years, one in college, nine in the majors and his first professional engagement was at Kezar Falls, Maine. He attended Bates College, where he graduated in 1908 and pitched for the baseball team and he broke into Organized Baseball at age 24 in 1906, with Worcester in the New England League and the next year moved up to Providence in the Eastern League. His performance there caught the attention of the Boston Americans and, at 26 years of age, he began playing professionally on September 25,1907 and he played for with the team for three years. On May 30,1908, Washington Senatorss Jerry Freemans single was the only hit allowed by Bostons Cy Young, Lord had four hits to back Cys pitching. On April 21,1909, Lord stole home on the front end of a steal in the bottom of the seventh, with Tris Speaker taking third. The Sox won the game, 6-2, on June 30,1910, the Philadelphia Athletics held a benefit for the widow and children of Mike Doc Powers, who had died a few days after the team opened Shibe Park in 1909. Players from the Washington, New York and Boston AL teams took part in a game against the As. In one of these contests Lord was timed from home to first in 3.4 seconds, when on July 10,1910, a Walter Johnson fastball broke Lords finger, the stellar play of his substitute Clyde Engle made Lord expendable. In 1910, the Red Sox fielded ten men who had been or would become MLB managers – no other team in history as ever had more. Lord was joined in this feat by Bill Carrigan, Gavvy Cravath, Doc Gessler, Deacon McGuire, Tris Speaker, Jake Stahl, Bob Unglaub, Heinie Wagner, and Cy Young. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox on August 9,1910, with Amby McConnell to the Chicago White Sox for Frank Smith, and Billy Purtell. In 1911, while playing in Major League Baseball, he had 180 Hits,103 Runs,18 Doubles,18 Triples,3 Home Runs,61 RBI and 43 Stolen Bases at in 141 Games. He played for the Pale Hose until 1914 but then got into a squabble with owner Charlie Comiskey. He held out on the Sox, returning for a few games only to demand his release, in 1915, the Buffalo Buffeds of the Federal League announced they had signed Lord. When he reported to Chicago in 1914, he was blacklisted by mutual consent of the American, for the 1915 season, the Buffalo team changed its name from the Buffeds to the Blues. Manager Larry Schlafly, was fired form his position June 4 and he was replaced temporarily by catcher Walter Blair and then by Lord, who had joined the Blues only eight days before
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Doc Gessler
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Henry Homer Doc Gessler was a Major League Baseball player born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, who began his eight-season career, at the age of 22, with the Detroit Tigers in 1903. He played mainly as a fielder in a career that totaled 880 games played,2969 at bats,831 hits,363 RBIs and 14 home runs. Doc died in Greensburg at the age of 44, and is interred in Saint Bernard Cemetery in Indiana, before his baseball career, he attended Ohio University, Washington & Jefferson College, and became a physician, graduating from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He was one of three doctors in the 1906 World Series, after his short stay with Detroit, he then moved on to the Brooklyn Superbas in an unknown transaction. For Brooklyn, he became a good hitter, batting.290 in both of his seasons with them. After a slow start in 1906, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Hub Knolls on April 28. He didnt play in the Majors for the 1907 season, but reappeared for the 1908 Boston Red Sox and batted.308, hit 14 triples, the following season, manager Fred Lake announced that Doc would be teams Captain for the 1909 season. This situation did not last the season, as he was traded to the Washington Senators on September 9,1909 in exchange for Charlie Smith and he played three seasons for the Senators and retired after the 1911 season. Doc became the manager of the Pittsburgh Stogies of the upstart Federal League in 1914, but after 11 games, the team soon adopted the nickname Rebels after their new manager, who remained their manager through the 1914 season, and the entire 1915 season. Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference
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Frank LaPorte
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Frank Breyfogle Laporte was an American baseball player. Born in Uhrichsville, Ohio, he began his league career with the New York Highlanders in 1905. He was eventually traded to the St. Louis Browns, where he had his best years, in 1911 he batted a career-high.314. In 1914 LaPorte went to the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Federal League and he led the league with 107 RBIs in 1914 while batting.311 for the first-place Indianapolis Hoosiers in 1914. His last game was on 10/03/1915, after his 1915 season, he retired. LaPorte died on September 25,1939 in Newcomerstown, Ohio and he was buried in Union Cemetery in Uhrichsville, Ohio. List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference
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Heinie Wagner
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Charles Francis Heinie Wagner was an American baseball player and manager. He played shortstop for the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox and he was also the manager of the Red Sox during the 1930 baseball season. Wagner was born in Harlem, New York, in September 1880 and he began his baseball career playing for the Waverly Club in the New York State League in 1901. In 1902, he began the season playing for Columbus in the American Association and he spent the remainder of the 1902 season with the Newark Sailors and continued to play for the Eastern League team through 1906. In 1906, Wagner joined the Boston Red Sox and he played for the Red Sox from 1906 to 1918, missing only the 1914 and 1917 seasons. He was the captain of Bostons 1912 World Series championship team and he also played for the Red Sox World Series championship teams in 1915,1916 and 1918. Wagner and Harry Hooper were the players to play on all four of the Red Sox World Series championship teams of the era. Wagner was considered to be a valuable infielder while playing with the Red Sox and was reputed to have an exceptionally powerful and he was also known to block the basepaths with his exceptionally big feet. With 141 career stolen bases for the Red Sox, Wagner ranked third in history when he retired. After being released by the Red Sox in January 1916, Wagner served as the player-manager of the Hartford team in the Eastern League for the first part of the 1916 season and he returned to the Red Sox in late June 1916. In 1920, Wagner closed out his career as the player-manager of the Norfolk Mary Janes in the Virginia League. After seven years out of baseball, Wagner was hired as a coach for the Boston Red Sox under Bill Carrigan and he was reported to be Carrigans right-hand man during the 1928,1929, and 1930 seasons. In 1930, he was hired as manager of the Red Sox after Carrigan retired, in Wagners sole season as manager, the Red Sox finished last in the American League with a 52–102 record. On September 29,1930, Wagners resignation as manager of the Red Sox was accepted by team president Bob Quinn, after retiring from baseball, Wagner worked as the superintendent of a lumber yard in New Rochelle, New York. He also coached the teams of the New Rochelle Police and Fire Departments. Wagner was married to Martha Hahn Wagner and they had two sons and four daughters. In March 1943, Wagner died of a heart ailment at his home on Van Guilder Avenue in New Rochelle at age 62, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference SABR biography
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Lou Criger
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Louis Criger was a Major League Baseball catcher with the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders between 1896 and 1912. Criger became the first Opening Day catcher in Boston American League franchises history, a catcher for most of Cy Youngs 511 victories, he also caught every inning for eight games with Boston in the first-ever World Series in 1903, helping his team win the championship. In a 16-season career, he batted.221 with 11 home runs and 342 RBIs, Criger stole 58 career bases and scored 337 runs. He had 709 career hits in 3202 at bats, though never a major star, Criger received votes for the Hall of Fame in four BBWAA elections. He garnered as much as eight percent of the vote, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Bio on BaseballLibrary. com
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Jesse Tannehill
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Jesse Niles Tannehill was a dead-ball era left-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Highlanders, Boston Red Sox, and the Washington Senators. Tannehill was among the best pitchers of his era and was one of the pitchers of all time. In fact, Tannehill was such a good hitter that he was used in the outfield 87 times in his career, Tannehill was born on July 14,1874 in Dayton, Kentucky. He broke into the National League at the age of 19 with the Cincinnati Reds, however, he struggled in 29 innings, after a partial season with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1897, Tannehill, in 1898, set a career high in both innings pitched and wins. Tannehill had several years with the Pirates until his career year in 1901. Tannehill posted an even better ERA in 1902––1. 95––but as the league ERA had dropped even more precipitously, after six years with the Pirates in the National League, Tannehill got involved in a salary dispute with Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss. As a result, Tannehill jumped to the startup American League franchise, after the season, he was traded by the Highlanders to the Boston Americans for Tom L. Hughes. Tannehill still had good years left, however. After this, however, Tannehill went into decline, as he was traded to the Washington Senators for Case Patten. Tannehill retired from baseball in 1911, with a career ERA of 2.79 and 197 career wins, after retiring as a player, Tannehill managed the Portsmouth Truckers of the Virginia League in 1914. In 1923 he managed the Topeka Kaws in the Southwestern League, in his later years, Tannehill worked in a Cincinnati machine shop and was a frequent visitor to Crosley Field, the home of the Cincinnati Reds from 1912 to 1970. He died of a stroke at Speers Hospital in Dayton, Campbell County, List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders List of Major League Baseball no-hitters Baseball Reference Biography Baseball Library
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Casey Patten
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Case Lyman Casey Patten was a professional baseball player. He was a pitcher over parts of eight seasons with the Washington Senators. For his career, he compiled a 105–128 record in 270 appearances and he was born in Westport, New York and later died in Rochester, New York at the age of 61. List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Frank Arellanes
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Frank Julián Arellanes was a professional baseball starting pitcher. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox from 1908 through 1910, listed at 6 ft 0 in,180 lb, he batted and threw right-handed. Born in Santa Cruz, California, Arellanes attended Santa Clara University before joining the Boston Red Sox during the 1908 midseason and he posted a 4–3 record and a 1.82 ERA in eight starts, including a one-hit victory against the Philadelphia Athletics. His most productive came in 1909, when he recorded 16 wins with a 2.18 ERA as the replacement of Cy Young in the pitching rotation, leading the American League in games finished. His 1910 season was interrupted by illness and he finished at 4–7,2.88 in 18 games and he ended the year with the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League, where he pitched a nine-inning no-hitter, losing a 2–0 game. In a three-season career, Arellanes posted a 24–22 record with 148 strikeouts, a strong control pitcher, he allowed 85 walks for a 1.86 BB/9IP. Arellanes died in San Jose, California at age 36, a victim of the Spanish flu pandemic, Arellanes is commonly believed to be the first Mexican-American to play baseball in the major leagues. However, Sandy Nava was the first known Mexican-American to play in the majors, list of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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King Brady
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James Ward Brady was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1905 and 1912. In 1881, King Brady was born in Elmer, New Jersey and his most productive season came in 1906 with Pittsburgh, when he finished 1-1 and compiled career-highs in ERA, strikeouts and innings pitched. On October 5,1908, with the Red Sox, he made his only American League appearance a good one, pitching an eight-hit, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference Baseball Library Retrosheet
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Eddie Cicotte
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Edward Victor Cicotte, nicknamed Knuckles, was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his time with the Chicago White Sox. The fixing of the 1919 World Series is the only recognized gambling scandal to tarnish a World Series, Cicotte was the son of Ambrose Cicotte and Archange Mary Drouillard, both of mainly French-Canadian extraction. His fathers early death is said to have pushed Cicotte to excel and he married Rose Ellen Freer, daughter of Russell John Freer and Annie Cecile Thornton, both of whom would later live with the Cicottes. At the time of his ban, he was considered one of the premier pitchers in the American League. A Detroit native, Cicotte played baseball in Georgia in 1905, both players were purchased by the Tigers, and Cicotte made his big-league debut on September 3,1905. Pitching in three games for Detroit, Cicotte compiled a 1–1 record with a 3.50 earned run average, Cicotte didnt return to the major leagues again until 1908, when he resurfaced with the Red Sox. After he compiled a 41–48 record in a Boston uniform, the Red Sox sold him to the White Sox on July 22,1912, Cicotte celebrated a breakout year in 1913, going 18–12 on the season with an ERA of 1.58. He led the league in winning percentage in 1916, but his best year was 1917, when he won 28 games and led the league in wins, ERA, on April 14 he threw a no hitter against the St. Louis Browns. That year, the White Sox went to the World Series, Cicotte won Game 1, lost Game 3, and pitched six innings of relief in Game 5 for a no-decision. His 1919 salary was $6,000, but he had a provision for a $10,000 bonus if he won 30 games. Legend has it that as the season drew to a close, owner Charles Comiskey ordered manager Kid Gleason to bench Cicotte for 5 games, denying him a chance at a 30-win season and the bonus money. In the 1919 World Series against the Reds, Cicotte pitched in three games, winning one but pitching ineffectively and losing the other two, Cicotte was the first of the eight players to come forward, signing a confession and a waiver of immunity. He later recanted this confession and was acquitted of all charges at trial by jury, after being banned from playing baseball, Cicotte returned to Livonia, Michigan. He managed a station, served as a game warden in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, then went to work for Ford Motor Company. Cicotte lived to be 84 years old and he was a strawberry farmer on a 5. 5-acre farm near Farmington until his death at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on May 5,1969. In the 1988 film Eight Men Out, about the Black Sox scandal and he was portrayed by actor Steve Eastin in the 1989 film Field of Dreams. Cicottes grandnephew Al Cicotte later pitched in the leagues, compiling a lifetime 10–13 record with six teams between 1957 and 1962
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Ralph Glaze
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Glaze was born in Denver, Colorado, and was recruited by Dartmouth College after displaying his skill in two sports. He played football at the University of Colorado in the 1901 season under coach Fred Folsom, Glaze enrolled at Dartmouth in 1902, being followed there by his younger brother, John. Under Folsom, he played a role in the schools first-ever football victory over Harvard in 1903. In 1905, Glaze was named an All-American as an end by Walter Camp, Glaze also played baseball at Dartmouth, and pitched a no-hitter against Columbia. During summers, Glaze played semi-pro ball in Colorado, using the assumed name Ralph Pearce to protect his college eligibility, among the Colorado teams Glaze played for was the Big Six team in Trinidad, where he pitched in 1905. As Tortes had dropped out of school, several Dartmouth alumni conspired to create a background for him. After graduating in 1906, Glaze signed with the Boston Americans, the team would later be known as the Boston Red Sox. Over three years, Glaze posted a record of 15 wins against 21 losses, with 137 strikeouts, a career highlight took place on August 31 of his rookie year, when he outdueled Philadelphia Athletics star pitcher Rube Waddell. Glaze began coaching in the offseasons, starting as a 1906 football assistant at Dartmouth and he left the Red Sox following the 1908 season, and spent the next several years with a number of minor league teams. In 1910, Glaze became the coach at Baylor University. His teams had a record of 12–10–3 from 1910 through 1912, Glaze became the head coach of the University of Southern Californias football team for the 1914 and 1915 seasons, compiling a 7–7 record. He was the first coach after USCs teams began to be known as the Trojans, after competing primarily against southern California teams throughout its history, USC was now beginning to include major colleges from other areas on its schedule. The 1914 season finale at Oregon State was the first against a college opponent since a 1905 loss at Stanford. The highlight of Glazes brief tenure occurred the year with the inauguration of the long-standing series with California. Glaze was succeeded in 1916 by Dean Cromwell, who was USCs football coach before the switch to rugby. Glaze also coached the Trojans baseball team, represented by the law school, in the 1915 season to a 5–10 record. He also coached the USC basketball team in 1915–16, with a record of 8–21 against exclusively southern California competition and he coached football at the Colorado School of Mines in 1919–20, with a record of 0–10–2. From 1921 to 1924 he coached at Lake Forest College, leading the team to a 10–12–3 record from 1921 to 1923
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Cy Morgan
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Harry Richard Cy Morgan was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds between 1903 and 1913. He was born in Pomeroy, Ohio He helped the Athletics win the 1910 and 1911 World Series, the 1912 Reach Guide credits him with helping carry the pitching burder for the 1911 team while stars Jack Coombs and Chief Bender were less effective than usual early in the season. Led the American League in Hits Allowed per 9 Innings Pitched in 1909 and this is also an Athletics single season record. Athletics Career Leader in Hits Allowed per 9 Innings Pitched, ranks 42nd on MLB Career ERA List. Ranks 25th on MLB Career Hits Allowed per 9 Innings Pitched List.51 ERA and he died in Wheeling, West Virginia on June 28,1962 of coronary artery disease. List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
