Wally Pipp
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| Born: February 17, 1892 Chicago , United States 
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| Died on: January 11, 1965 Grand Rapids , United States
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| Batting average | .281 |
| Home runs | 90 |
| Runs Batted In | 1.004 |
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| Last update: January 7th, 2019 | |
Walter Clement "Wally" Pipp (* 17th February 1892 in Chicago , Illinois ; † 11. January 1965 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) was an American baseball player of the Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers , New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds . He played the position of first baseman .
Pipp completed his first professional years in Detroit, fell out because of financial irregularities with the club and moved to the New York Yankees. There Pipp became one of the biggest power hitters of the so-called deadball era and hit the most home runs in 1916 and 1917 (12 and 9 respectively). With the Yankees around Star Babe Ruth , he won the World Series in 1923 and was a regular player until 1925, when he (he thought) was replaced by Lou Gehrig for a game . Gehrig played so well that he ousted Pipp and played the next 2,130 games as first baseman for the Yankees. Pipp moved to the Cincinnati Reds the following season and ended his career in 1928.
Pipp lost a lot of money in both the great stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression , but made a modest income as a machinist. He had four children with his wife Nora and died of cardiac arrest at the age of 71.
Why Pipp was replaced by Gehrig in 1925 is still not clear to this day. He himself said that he had suffered from acute migraines , the assumption seems more likely that coach Miller Huggins had wanted to replace the aging Pipp with the talent Gehrig for a long time. Nevertheless, Pipp (similar to Shoeless Joe Jackson or Mario Mendoza ) has become a household word in US-American parlance, in this case for "to be suppressed forever after a short break".
Web links
- Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
- Wally Pipp in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Fox Sports via Pipps Replacement , foxsports.com
- Biography of Wally Pipp , Sports Illustrated
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| SURNAME | Pipp, Wally |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pipp, Walter Clement |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1965 |
| Place of death | Grand Rapids , Michigan, United States |