Opposing pitchers intentionally 'walked' Mays 214 times (put on first base without trying).
He was unquestionably one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Link to - Back Scarcity - The "Say 'Hey" Kid, celebrated this day at the Giants' game in San Francisco, riding in a beautiful 1956 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Starfire convertible, with its 324ci V-8 and Rochester "Quadro-Jet" 4-barrel carburetor. Link to checklist - Link to - T206 checklist / Listing all the possible backs - Link to - T206 Resource - / More importantly, it is one of the scarcest cards from the most prominent of all vintage card sets. This is in part because of Wagner's place among baseball's immortals, as he was an original Hall of Fame inductee. The T206 Wagner is the most valuable baseball card in existence, and even damaged examples are valued at $100,000 or more. The cards measure 1 7⁄16 by 2 5⁄8 inches (3.7 cm × 6.7 cm) which is considered by many collectors to be the standard tobacco card size. There are also multiple cards for the same player in different poses, different uniforms, or even with different teams after being traded (since the set was issued over a period of three years). Over 100 of the cards picture minor league players. It is also known informally as the "White Border" set due to the distinctive white borders surrounding the lithographs on each card. It is a landmark set in the history of baseball card collecting, due to its size, rarity, and the quality of its color lithographs. The tobacco card set known as T206 was issued from 1909 to 1911 in cigarette and loose tobacco packs through 16 different brands owned by the American Tobacco Company. LINK to SABR article - Ginger Beaumont - written by Daniel Ginsburg - /bioproj/person/ginger-beaumont/ Last MLB appearance - October 15, 1910, for the Chicago Cubs MLB debut - April 21, 1899, for the Pittsburgh Pirates In July 2015, a monument to Beaumont was dedicated at Beaumont Field. His name also represents part of the Burlington Little League organization. Beaumont suffered two strokes in his seventies, and died at age 79 in Burlington, Wisconsin.īeaumont has a baseball field named after him in his hometown of Burlington. He was one of the first inductees to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1951. He played one more season in the minor leagues before retiring to his Honey Creek, Wisconsin farm. 311 career batting average and on-base average of.
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Often bothered by leg injuries, he joined the Chicago Cubs for the 1910 season, and made pinch-hitting appearances in the first three games of the 1910 World Series before leaving the major leagues with a. He was also the first player in major league history to lead his league in hits three consecutive years, which has been accomplished by only five others he led the NL in hits a fourth time with the 1907 Braves. Nicknamed "Ginger" for his thick red hair, he used his excellent speed to great advantage on the day before his 23rd birthday in his rookie season, he had six infield singles and became the first player to score six runs in a game. As the Pirates' regular leadoff hitter, he was the first player ever to bat in a World Series game. During the years 1900–1904 – with the Pirates winning pennants from 1901–1903 – Beaumont led the National League in hits three times, scored 100 runs four times, leading the league once, and also captured the 1902 batting championship with a. He was born in Rochester, Wisconsin, and attended Beloit College.
Apat age 79 in Burlington, Wisconsin) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1899–1906) and Boston Braves (1907–1909).
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