Sam Crawford

Sam Crawford
Outfielder
Born: April 18, 1880 Wahoo , United States
Died on: June 15, 1968 Hollywood , United States
Suggested: Left	Threw: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
September 10,  1899  with the  Cincinnati Reds
Last MLB assignment
September 16,  1917  with the  Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 309
Hits	2,961
Home runs	97
Runs Batted In	1,525
Triples	309
Teams
Cincinnati Reds (1899-1902) Detroit Tigers (1903-1917)
Awards
2 × batsman with the most home runs (1901, 1908) 3 × batsman with the most RBI in the AL (1910, 1914, 1915) He holds the MLB record with 309 triples in one career
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1957
Special selection	Veterans Committee

Samuel "Sam" Earl Crawford (born April 18, 1880 in Wahoo , Nebraska , † June 15, 1968 in Hollywood , California ) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball . His nickname was Wahoo .

Life

Sam Crawford began his career in the National League on September 10, 1899 with the Cincinnati Red Stockings . In 1903 he moved to the American League for the Detroit Tigers . He played a total of 19 seasons in the major leagues before ending his playing career in 1917. With 309 triples , he still leads the Major Leagues today, a record that can hardly be surpassed today due to the different ways of playing. In 1901 he led the National League with 16 home runs , an unbelievable number for the time. In 1908 he led the AL with 7 home runs, making him the only player to win a home run title in both major leagues. In total, he hit 97 home runs in his career, 70 of them in the AL, which he led in this category at the end of his career.

Together with Ty Cobb , with whom he did not have a good relationship, he formed the Tigers' parade offensive. However, Crawford was denied success in the World Series . From 1907 to 1909 he took part in three World Series, but lost twice to the Chicago Cubs and once to the Pittsburgh Pirates with Honus Wagner . With 2961 hits, he was just below the limit of 3000 that he would have achieved if his 87 hits in the Western League, which became the American League in 1900, had counted in his statistics.

After the end of his playing career, he worked as a baseball coach for many years. In 1927 Crawford took on the role of a baseball coach in Buster Keaton's comedy The Model Student . In 1957 he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee . In 1968 he was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.

His stations as a player

• 1899-1902 Cincinnati Reds
• 1903-1917 Detroit Tigers

Web links

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Biography of Sam Crawford (English)
• Sam Crawford in the Hall of Fame (English)