By Robert E. Kelly
Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, and Honus Wagner have been one of the maximum hitters who ever performed significant league baseball, yet how do they stack up opposed to avid gamers of alternative eras and every different? This e-book employs a statistical research of "production consistent with at-bat" to match one hundred twenty best batters by means of place over a 19-year interval while touch, velocity and hit-and-run procedure have been extra worthwhile than energy and residential runs. incorporated are an research of every player's strengths and weaknesses, ratings of the main proficient and the main useful manufacturers, and the choice of an All-Star crew for the period.
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This 32 Baseball’s Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era arrangement continued in 1909, but Merkle’s playing time doubled; in 1910, McGraw gave him the full-time job. Merkle was a Giant for over nine years. Then in 1916, he was traded to Brooklyn for Lew McCarty, a backup catcher. He began the 1917 season with the Dodgers but, in August, was sold to the Cubs. He finished that season and three others in Chicago. Merkle’s career was actually over when he left the Cubs in 1920, but he reappeared in 1925 with the New York Yankees as a part-time player and didn’t quit for good until 1926 when he was 38 years old.
Otherwise, his offensive record is undistinguished. 232 MVP 0 269 673 217 1159 0 1159 MTP 269 Dick Hoblitzel, a slender southpaw, joined the Reds in 1908 as a 20-year-old, and played 32 games at first base. John Ganzel was resident first baseman and manager at the time. In 1909 Ganzel was gone, Clark Griffith was manager and Hoblitzel became the regular first baseman. He played for the Reds for over seven years, then (surprisingly, for the waiver price) moved to the Boston Red Sox during the 1914 season.
It is only a record of his beginnings. Defensively, he showed superior ability. As a producer, he was better than the average of the sample group. Judging by his early offensive record, one assumes Schalk is in the HOF because of his defensive abilities, and his career durability as a catcher. His PAB elements compare with the average of the sample group as follows: PER AT BAT (PAB) 1901–19 Schalk Sample avg. 191 A small man for a catcher, Ray Schalk was unusually durable on a seasonal basis. During 50 Baseball’s Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era his eight seasons in the subject period, he caught over 100 games in all but one — in six seasons, he was active in more than 120 games.