Charlie Gehringer

Charlie Gehringer
Second baseman
Born: May 11, 1903 Fowlerville , United States
Died on: January 21, 1993 Bloomfield Hills , United States
Suggested: Left	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
September 22,  1924  with the  Detroit Tigers
Last MLB assignment
September 29,  1942  with the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	.320
Hits	2,839
Home runs	184
Runs Batted In	1,427
Teams
Detroit Tigers ( 1924 - 1942 )
Awards
World Series Winner ( 1935 ) AL MVP (1937) Best batsman in the AL (1937) In his honor, the # 2 in the Detroit Tigers is no longer awarded
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1949
Quota	85.03%

Charles "Charlie" Leonard Gehringer (born May 11, 1903 in Fowlerville , Michigan , † January 21, 1993 in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). His nickname was The Mechanical Man .

biography

Charlie Gehringer made his debut in the American League with the Detroit Tigers on September 22, 1924. The second baseman is still considered one of the best players in his position. Gehringer was a very calm and introverted contemporary. His manager Mickey Cochrane said of him: "Charlie says hello on the first day of the season, goodbye on the last day of the season and has a batting average of 35% in between". He spent his entire career with the Tigers. In a total of 13 seasons he came over a batting average of 30%. In 1937 he had the best batting average in the league with 37.1% and was elected MVP of the American League. He competed three times in the World Series with the Detroit Tigers (1934, 1935 and 1940). In 1934 and 1940 the Tigers were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games each, in 1935 they were able to defeat the Chicago Cubs in six games. Gehringer was voted All Star six times .

After his career as a player, he worked as a coach for the Tigers, later (from 1953 to 1958) as a club official. He was also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee from 1953 to 1990 .

In 1949 he had already become a member of the Hall of Fame himself. Since June 12, 1983, the Tigers no longer award his jersey number 2. He died on January 21, 1993 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at the age of 89.

Web links

Commons : Charlie Gehringer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics Baseball Reference  or  FanGraphs (English)
• Charlie Gehringer in the Baseball Hall of Fame (English)