Baseball Players Flashcards
Ty Cobb
1886-1961 American baseball CF from GA - Nicknamed “The Georgia Peach” - Played 22 seasons for Detroit Tigers - 1st player inducted into Hall of Fame (in 1936) - Still holds records for highest career batting average (.367) - Crazy and violent
Lou Gehrig
1903-1941 1st baseman from NYC - Played for Yankees 1924-1939 - Nicknamed The Iron Horse - First player to have his number retired (#4) - “Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” speech
Joe DiMaggio
1914-1999 from San Fran - Baseball CF played all 13 seasons with Yankees 1936-51 - 56 game hitting streak record still stands - Briefly married to Marilyn Monroe 1954 - 3 MVP’s 13 All-Stars 361 HR’s - Joltin’ Joe, The Yankee Clipper
Honus Wagner
1874-1955 American baseball SS - Played 1897-1917 for Pittsburgh Pirates - The Flying Dutchman - Won 8 batting titles (best bat avg) - Subject of rarest trading card
Denton True “Cy” Young
1867-1955 American baseball pitcher from OH - Played 1890-1911 mostly for Cleveland y Boston - Still holds records for wins and innings pitched - Cy Young award given to season’s best pitcher
George Herman “Babe” Ruth
1895-1948 American from Baltimore - Played 1914-34 as P for Boston y OF for Yankees - 714 HRs, 2213 RBIs - His HR hitting ushered in the live-ball era - Part of Muderers Row 1927 Yankees team
Sanford “Sandy” Koufax
1935- Jewish-American from NYC - Played P for Brooklyn/LA Dodgers 1955-66 - 7x All-Star; 3x Cy Young; NL MVP (1963) - Youngest ever elected to HOF (36 in 1972) - Didn’t pitch Game 1 of 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur
Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson
1919-72 Afr-American from GA - Played 2B for Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-56 - 6x All Star; NL MVP (1949) - Broke color barrier in 1947 - Jersey number 42 is universally retired in MLB - Became 1st Afr-Am VP of a corporation (Chock Full O’ Nuts) in 1957
