Enos Slaughter

Enos Slaughter


Rightfielder
Born: April 27, 1916 Roxboro , United StatesUnited States
Died on: August 12, 2002 Durham , United StatesUnited States
Suggested: Left	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 19, 1938 with the St. Louis Cardinals
Last MLB assignment
September 29, 1959 with the Milwaukee Braves
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 300
Hits	2,383
Home runs	169
Runs Batted In	1,304
Teams
St. Louis Cardinals (1938-1942, 1946-1953) New York Yankees (1954–1955) Kansas City Athletics (1955-1956) New York Yankees (1956-1959) Milwaukee Braves (1959)
Awards
10 × All-Star (1941, 1942, 1946–1953) 4 × World Series winner (1942, 1946, 1956, 1958) Batsman with the most RBIs in the NL (1946) In his honor, the # 9 is no longer awarded at the St. Louis Cardinals Member of the Hall of Fame for the St. Louis Cardinals
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1985
Special selection	Veterans Committee

Enos Bradsher Slaughter (born April 27, 1916 in Roxboro , North Carolina , † August 12, 2002 in Durham , North Carolina) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball . His nickname was Country .

biography

Enos Slaughter was a very good batsman on the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees teams . In ten of his nineteen seasons he had a batting average of over 30%. He won the World Series twice with the Cardinals (1942 against the Yankees and 1946 against the Boston Red Sox ), with the Yankees he took part in three World Series, including two (1956 against the Brooklyn Dodgers and 1958 against the Milwaukee Braves ).

As a southern gamer and tobacco farmer, Slaughter attempted a boycott of the Dodgers in 1947 to protest the Brooklyn Dodgers' signing of Jackie Robinson . However, the President of the National League Ford Frick threatened to immediately ban any player who participates. So this measure came to nothing. However, it was not until 1958 that the Cardinals signed Curt Flood, an Afro-American player.

Slaughter was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1985 .

His stations as a player

1938-1953 St. Louis Cardinals
1954-1955 New York Yankees
1955-1956 Kansas City Athletics
1956-1959 New York Yankees
1959 Milwaukee Braves

Web links

Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
Enos Slaughter in the Hall of Fame (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Slaughter, Enos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Slaughter, Enos Bradsher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roxboro , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH	August 12, 2002
Place of death	Durham , North Carolina