Pee Wee Reese
Pee Wee Reese made ten All Star teams, played in 7 World Series, and was the starting shortstop for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Pee Wee Reese made ten All Star teams, played in 7 World Series, and was the starting shortstop for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Nicknamed “The Ignitor”, 7-time All Star Paul Molitor finished with 3,319 career hits. A World Series MVP, Molitor was a first-ballot HoFer.
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Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron combined to hit 863 homers to move ahead of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as the greatest HR-hitting teammates.
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John McGraw holds the record for most wins by a National League manager and is third in MLB history behind Connie Mack & Tony LaRussa.
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Fred Lindstrom was only 18 when he collected 10 hits in the 1924 World Series vs. the Senators pitching staff that included Walter Johnson.
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A defensive-minded shortstop, Travis Jackson anchored the New York Giants infield from 1922-1936 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in ’82.
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After a Hall of Fame career as a third baseman in the Negro Leagues, Judy Johnson became a Major League scout working for four different teams.
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A 10-time All Star and ’49 batting champion, George Kell struck out only 287 times in 6,702 at bats. He also announced for the Tigers for 37 years.
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A two-time batting champ in the 1880s, Mike “King” Kelly helped popularize the hit-and-run, run, the double-steal, and the hook slide.
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Harmon Killebrew hit 573 homers; at his retirement it was the most by a right-hander in AL history & the 2nd-most in the AL behind Babe Ruth.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954