Frank chance

Frank chance
First baseman / manager
Born: September 9, 1877 Fresno , United States
Died on: September 15, 1924 Los Angeles , United States
Suggested: Right	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 29,  1898  with the  Chicago Orphans
Last MLB assignment
April 21,  1914  with the  New York Yankees
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 296
Home runs	20th
Runs Batted In	596
Stolen Bases	401
Teams
As a player Chicago Orphans / Cubs (1898–1912) New York Yankees (1913-1914) As a manager Chicago Cubs ( 1905 -1912) New York Yankees (1913-1914) Boston Red Sox (1923)
Awards
2 × World Series winner ( 1907 , 1908) 2 × runner with the most stolen bases ( 1903 , 1906 )
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1946
Special selection	Veterans Committee

Frank Leroy Chance (born September 9, 1877 in Fresno , California , † September 15, 1924 in Los Angeles , California) was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball . His nicknames were Husk or The Peerless Leader .

biography

Frank Chance began his career with the Chicago Cubs in the National League as a catcher and at times as an outfielder , but moved to the position of first baseman after the commitment of Johnny Kling . His big time came when he was in the middle of the 1905 season , when he also took over the managerial position with the Cubs from Frank Selee . Under his direction, the Cubs won the National League title in 1906 , 1907 , 1908 and 1910. In 1906 they set a record for the Major Leagues with 116 wins and only 36 losses. A loss to the White Sox in the 1906 World Series was followed by two title wins against the Detroit Tigers in the following years. Chance was the outstanding player in the 1908 series with a batting average of 42.1% in the Cubs' last World Series title to date.

After the 1912 season, he left the Cubs and worked for the New York Yankees for the next two years . He left this due to illness in 1914 and returned to his Californian homeland. There he took over the Los Angeles-based team of the Pacific Coast League as owner and manager in 1916 and 1917. He returned to the East for a short time in 1923. As a coach at the Boston Red Sox , he should try to lead the team, which was weakened after many departures (including Babe Ruth to the Yankees), back to the top of the American League , but failed in this endeavor. The following year he wanted to take over the managerial post of the Chicago White Sox , but could not do so for health reasons. Chance died on September 15, 1924 in Los Angeles.

In 1946 Frank Chance was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame along with Joe Tinker and Johnny Evans . This trio became famous for a poem by newspaper columnist Franklin Adams entitled Baseball's Sad Lexicon , also known as Tinkers to Evers to Chance .

His stations as a player

• 1898-1912 Chicago Cubs
• 1913-1914 New York Yankees

His stations as a manager

• 1905-1912 Chicago Cubs
• 1913-1914 New York Yankees

Web links

Commons : Frank Chance  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Data as a manager (English)
• Biography of Frank Chance (English)
• Frank Chance in the Hall of Fame (English)